"And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water."

"I have to say that I think I probably took the library for granted, because my father had been taking me since before…"

"I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or…"

"I think stories are forever…[But] the way we get stories has changed. This might be an ostrich-in-the-sand kind of th…"

"One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through."

"Reading for writers is like training for athletes."

"If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept…"

"Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope."

"How could memories feel so close and so far away at the same time?"

"Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of qui…"