Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.