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

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….

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

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters..

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath..

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 ….

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for..

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily los….

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….

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge..

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing..

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….

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just cou….

And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding….

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them..

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good..

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wa….

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them ….

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die..

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise..

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. S….