No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

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