It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.