I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

Be the great person you ought to be.

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.