You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.