You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.