Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

Here is the boy, drowning.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

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.

This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.