I want a campfire box.

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.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.