That thing, that tiny part of The Land of Elyon, is gone but not entirely forgotten. Elyon had his reason for sending you and me on this journey. Sometimes we see something as plain as...

She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother’s touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the...

We can’t go back, Alexa”, he said. ” We can’t go back once we’ve started growing up, and the world can’t be made simple again.

In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny...

There’s something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

My strength was returning as we went on. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself-courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace- and I always...

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of...

It’s never too late to stop believing a lie,” said Thomas. “You need only courage and friends, and you have both.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. “You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won’t forget that.

In my view, there are many different kinds of hugs. There are the ones you give to huggers, people who hug all the time. These, to me, are by far the least special of all...

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were a reminder of how each of us had certain abilities that the rest did not....

You can’t be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

I watched the night sky with it’s countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the...

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you’re big enough inside.