Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

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.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Besides being a model, I'm a human and a woman.

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.