“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

“We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.”

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]”

“Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

“How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken.”The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. “Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won’t have people like you screaming out for people like me; for people like you are so ghastly and in need of saving too many times.” Lucy to Garrett from my Steampunk YA Romance book I have started.”

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”

“If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you’re willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn’t acknowledge it.”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”

“Hope, thin as a thread, sharp as a fishing line, cut into David’s heart.” p. 79”

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

“When you’re at odds with yourself, it’s hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it’s like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.”

“There were so many times along that path when the voice within, felt compelled, to ask me whether my existence had any value; whether my life had any purpose or meaning”

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”