The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

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

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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