“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

“If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.”

“If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”

“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”

“5. My husband's words found their mark, and I recalled something that Zilpah had told me when I was a child in the red tent, and far too young to understand her meaning. “We are all born of the same mother,” she said. After a lifetime, I knew that to be true.”

“The price of being a hip, swinging chick eventually had become too great to pay.”

“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”