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

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

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

[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.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.