Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.