How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.