There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

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.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

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

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.