I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

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.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow.

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise