We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state. ~Michael Vey

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.