but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.