If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

What can be more exciting than that?" "Fighting ShadowClan

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.

My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.