Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

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.