It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.