For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

God's justice is always perfect.

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

I like how small you can be on TV.

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.