It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.