Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.