Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

God's laws are God's blessings to humanity.

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.