Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood..

Only the nonreader fears books..

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language..

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair..

We write by the light of every story we have ever read..

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing..

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one..

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived..

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school..

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move..

September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. W….

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places..

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself..

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody..

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world..

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by my….

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep..

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized..

I read.. because one life is not enough.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck..

Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks;….