Fear dims when you learn things.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction