Favorite Quotes

"I know you are only a tiny little girl, but there is some kind of magic in you somewhere.  I've seen it with my own eyes."

-Miss Honey in Matilda by Roald Dahl

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

-Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

"Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful.  He would allow himself dreams."

-Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

"I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be."

-Ida B in Ida B... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

"...no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.  That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars."

-The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss