Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

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

if one of us falls, we all fall

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.