It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd..

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise ….

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth..

Except I didn't say eff.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man..

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.

This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out..

We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing..

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believ….

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative..

A thing worth learning is worth learning well..

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the othe….

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says..

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these thi….

Stories don’t always have happy endings..

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not..

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They'r….

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blu….

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you c….

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between..