Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is.
You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.
A man without a filter, is chaos walking.
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something without tearing it down. It ain’t the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.
Sometimes the people don’t know what’s best for them, Ivan,” she says. “Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That’s what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it’s dangerous, that it’s painful and risky, that it’s making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect.
And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.