Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she'd be just as happy.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220, 222)

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the blame

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.