Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

What we see is not always what exists.

How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.