Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.