Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Safe is just another word for scared.

Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.