Whatever that place is, I don't much care -- not unless a book has happened there.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

When she was reading she wasn’t the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn’t the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants’ backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.