Amy Neftzger quotes:

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?

When Death laughs, no one else does

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Reality can be very boring.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

I donâ??t have to be logical. Iâ??m a leopard. Weâ??re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)

Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you donâ??t know you have.

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

Thatâ??s the first step to learning: admitting what you donâ??t know.

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.