The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

It's time for you to know who you are

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

I don't like what you're doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today