I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.