The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!