He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.

It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.