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A really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

Curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen - a place a mouse could go to.

People can be unimaginably foolish ... and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.

People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.

When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle.
"Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

On a bright Sunday morning in the early years of the last century,

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

The air in the library rooms was silent, full of ideas, the thinking of the writers of books, the thinking of the readers of books.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

All work is worth doing well. And there are things to be enjoyed about most jobs ...

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

It was almost as if he'd been a ghost in all those rooms, all those days, a ghost in his own life.

It's never been today before.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs ... They thought that just because they were smashing eggs they must be making an omelette

Ideas, he knew from experience, arrived in their own good time, dressed exactly the way they wanted to be and saying only as much as they felt like.

Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the wind. If the wind blew, the grasses had to bend with it.

Why doesn't momma come back?

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.

Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you.

I love teaching; I love little kids.