“I have never heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they exist.”

“Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.”

“I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.”

“My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.”

“It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.”

“I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.”