We are the choices we make.

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

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Things change, but they stay the same.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.