“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”

“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”

“She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.”

“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”

“Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.”

“True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.”

“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”