“Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.”

“It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.”

“In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!”

“As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.”

“So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.”

“My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.”

“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.”

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending t...”

“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”

“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”