Jake Kohlmeyer

“Mr. Pilkey smiled. “Well, I wish they were on the shelves, where everybody could read them,” he said. “I think it’s important that libraries be a place where you can find all kinds of books. Good ones, bad ones, funny ones, serious ones. Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it’s valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.”
― Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

“Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.”
― Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“It’s hard to become an adult in the place where you grew up. Because you can never escape who you were.”
― Benjamin Percy, The Ninth Metal