A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

Here is the boy, drowning.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

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.