We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.