The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured vaguely ….

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking..

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 ou….

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?.

I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safet….

TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to m….

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….

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

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 ….

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..

A thing worth learning is worth learning well..

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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..