And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

The keys of happiness and success lie beyond your fear fences. Jump over the fences NOW

I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness.

The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.

Love is a wound, " the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.