“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

“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.”

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is alw...”

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”

“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”

“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...”

“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.”

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