“After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.”

“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”

“Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.”

“It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.”

“Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.”