But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.