“Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.”

“There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairsThe heart is ...”

“...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.”

“No one is too old for fairy tales.”

“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think o...”

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”

“Stories can save us.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”