“Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it.”

“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.”

“Let's not let this be your life tonight," he says. "Let's get back in the car and pretend we're driving away because we want to... not because we need to. We can pretend I'm taking you somewhere amazing... somewhere you've always wanted to go. You can snuggle up to me and we can talk about how excited we are and we'll talk about everything we'll do when we get there. We can talk about the important stuff later. But tonight... let's not let this be your life.”

“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.”

“When you lose your best friend it's not always because they go somewhere, like Noah's best friend did. Sometimes you're the one who goes somewhere. What if you go somewhere and you don't know it? How do you make it better when you went somewhere and you didn't know it then, but you do now?”

“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”