Here is the boy, drowning.

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.

Peace lets us to be more pleasant.

Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

I tend to want to go quite big in my acting, which you just cannot do in front of a camera. It's taken me a while to learn how to pull it back.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.