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 world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.