The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.