Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not t satisfy someone else's opinion.

Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.