So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

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.

Faith is a fortune.

The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling.

I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.

Every moment brings a choice; every choice has an impact.

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.