Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

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.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn, ' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

To Die is not as bad as not having lived

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.