“I was always the kind of girl who believed in magic...”

“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”

“It didn't matter if i was the kind of girl who had sex, or the kind of girl who had her portrait on on a wall in the library, or the kind of girl who who got into the best college, or the kind of girl who didn't tell her parents everything, or the kind of girl who teachers loved. I just needed to be okay with all the kinds of girl I was.”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“But maybe I could be the wacky, unpredictable girl; the kind who always fascinates more conservative men in the movies.”

“But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.”