Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy 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.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Life is full of endless possibilities.

Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.

One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.

I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.