War makes monsters out of men.

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.

It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.