Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.