“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

All you need to do is hold on tight and believe.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Time is the thief of memory.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.