Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

Why go for something cold and dead, when you can have something hot and panting?

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.