“Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.”

“Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, si...”

“And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”