If adrenaline was a catalyst for strength then hope was the catalyst for endurance.

There is a way to be good again...

Books are the mirror of the soul

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

Hatred in your heart for others is always weakness.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.