when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

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.

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493