“When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.”

“Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.”

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”

“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”

“Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.”

“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.”