“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

“All our yesterdays neatly shelved, time cataloged in drawers: News grows brittle and yellow under the library, in catacombs of paper.”

“The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.”