“I'm weird. Everyone says so. I suppose it'because while other fifteen-year-olds are talking about the best lip gloss or which movie star is hotter, I would rather be curled up with a book.”

“No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong with the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

“Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.”