No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

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.

What matters is we are living beings.

May you find grace to be faithful at all times to the Lord.

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

Better late than never."-Dork Diaries

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.