“You’re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You’re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You’re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.”

“A hypervigilance, never knowing what to expect, but knowing to expect something.”

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

“أنا لا أريد أن أعبر دون أن أعرفَ كل ما يمكنني أن أعرفه”

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don’t know what just happened. They can’t remember.”

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’said Gimli.’Maybe,’said Elrond,’but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”

“I stay cool, and dig all jive,That’s the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.”

“Decide what your truth is. Then live it.”

“He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right”

“The greatest power lies in Prayer & Recitation of Name Divine.”

“It’s not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. – Marc Hunter”