It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

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.

There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.

Dating is... weird.

I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.