How do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
It’s not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them.
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’re the ones who are asking for too little.”
Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.
But a knife ain’t just a thing, is it? It’s a choice, it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.
Guessing a thing ain’t knowing a thing.
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world – honest, unsnobby and loyal.
Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
Midnight passes and I’m twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
Except I didn’t say eff.
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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 things. I don’t think that’s true.
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. – on librarians.
This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.