Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

If you have realized how powerful a simple act of kindness is, you will never be rude.

Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.