I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.