You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

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.

A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.

There is no destination except the one inside of you.

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Only grace makes it possible to do the good we must do.

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.