[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

I read.. because one life is not enough