Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

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.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.