She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Don’t just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others

Anything you can think of, anything you can imagine- is real.. somewhere. We dream of such things, here on earth, never realizing in our dream-state our minds are peering into other worlds.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.

God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.

Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)