Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

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.

Angels are warriors of God. I'm a soldier.

Alcohol is none other than a call from the hall (of alcoholics). That hall is none other than the hell.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

I'm giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.