I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. And I love you anyway remember?

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

The best things in life are crazy.

I don't want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.

Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t save you, Sara... and I can’t save you either.

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

I didn't say them things that I said.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

I go where the lizards tell me.