We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

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

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

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

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.