She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard.” visualization words

Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.