I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.