I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.