"You shouldn't try to hide from your pain. You shouldn't run from it, cover it up, pretend it never happened."

"It was my job to to carry the stories of the land to its people. All the stories. If we ignored the past, how would we learn from it?

"We've never been able to figure out if Grim actually sees him or just kind of senses a disturbance in the force.
Cats are weird like that."

"Sometimes it's important to do things for the people you love even when those things don't make a lick of sense to you."

"...Because society has taught us that there's no use in dressing bigger bodies in beautiful clothes, because we do not value bodies of all shapes and sizes. And you want to know who's fed that lie to society?...The patriarchy!"

"My second answer is that sometimes you've just gotta live through life without any shortcuts. Sometimes the only way you can figure out which way is up is to swim to the surface all on our own. It stinks, but it's true. And sometimes people answer their own questions in their letters. Writing can help suss things out, but sometimes we don't see the answer because it's not the one we'd hoped for."


A beautiful book.

"The limit, then, doth not exist!"

"You're not just your toes or your chin or your size
Not just a bit or a spot or a part
You're not just your outsides -
You're also your heart.

You see there's more than honking to geeses
And there's more to a cow than a moo
When you add up all the pieces
there is more than we see to you.
When we put you all together
You're a beautiful, marvelous,
Spirited, lovely
Wonderful one of a kind!

"I read to learn new things, I read for ideas and inspiration, I read for enjoyment and happiness, but above all else I read to escape the real world."

"Books have taught me to be empathetic, to be grateful, to be open-minded, and to follow my passion."

"By living a reading life...I have lived many lives at once."

"The love of reading is highly contagious. Read everything, anything, anytime, anywhere."