Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.