I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

To live is not breathing it is action.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Milos Forman

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Charles Baudelaire

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.

Bashir F. Biodun

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Jeanette Winterson

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

English Proverb

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and Icried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

John Green