Ann M. Martin

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

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.

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

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another.

Fight your battles with words, not fist.

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.