If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.