“If music can shine, Sophie thought, this music shone... 'It's like eight thousand birds, Charles!'When the music closed, she clapped until the rest of the audience had stopped and until her hands w...”

“Perhaps, she thought, thats what love does. Its not there to make you feel special. Its to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood...”

“It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.”

“You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.”

“I do, Im afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.Of course, the...”

“You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.”

“We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”

“I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But cert...”

“And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you.”

“I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But cert...”