Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.