“ Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. Laura Miller
“ If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. Laura Miller
“ Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling… Laura Miller
“ Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely? Laura Miller
“ A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world I live in, although sometimes it looks a lot like it. Sometimes, though, it feels closest to my… Laura Miller
