But though that love was engraved on her heart, she did not have the words to explain its nature.

If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you’re left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it’s still there, it’s still valuable, and it’s achieved the full measure of it’s being. A book is to read, whether it’s worth five pounds or five thousand pounds.

He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks.

A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can share it with your children or your grandchildren or anyone you love enough to let into its secrets.

Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale.

It was as if a part of her mind dwelt in him and a part of his mind dwelt in her, and when she was separated from him a part of herself was missing.

King Arthur’s Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch... it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.

The gifts of God are rarely what we expect.

I was always scared to meet people. Scared or maybe lazy.

A literary mystery, a damsel in distress, and his rival deposed. If that doesn’t get him here then he’s not much of a knight in shining armor.