The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most