...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.

You have a lot to explore beyond this cottage if you want to know everything about the world. Explore until your heart is full, Belle. And then explore some more.

For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.