It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

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.

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.