If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean..

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day..

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all..

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly do….

Faith with proof is no faith at all..

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go….

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not..

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself le….

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers..

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look..

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, be….

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a ma….

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the ….

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side..