I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

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.

I will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.I will feast on your hunger.

The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

She slid her fingers into his thick hair and melted while he kissed her as if there were no tomorrow. He tempted, he seduced, he enticed.And she willingly followed.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.