I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.