Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.