Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.

I'm always moving forward.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.