Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.