How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

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.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity I'd rather do my work and go home.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.