Hey, Geekoid!” yelled Duncan Dougal, “Why do you read so much? Don’t you know how to watch TV?

Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don’t know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don’t know the whole story yet. But that’s a good reason...

Luster, bring me home.

Chains,” said the Tinker, coming up behind her. “They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

Family isn’t blood,” she said bitterly, continuing to back away. “Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you,...

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.