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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

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All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

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Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

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Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know. Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. Well, children all have to belong to somebody, he muttered. Do you belong to someone? That's different. Because you're a grown-up?

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Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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Born: December 10, 1958 (age 66)
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