~Captain Peleg from Herman Melville’s MOLBY-DICK

“Can’t ye see the world from where you stand?”

~Tim O'Brien from THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

"Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story."

~Kurt Vonnegut

"Be careful who you pretend to be, because you are who you pretend to be."

~Jorge Luis Borges from the short story “The Library of Babel”

"This philosopher observed that all books, however different from one another they might be, consist of identical elements: the space, the period, the comma, and the twenty-two letters of the alphabet."

~Ruldolfo Anaya BLESS ME, ULTIMA

“’Be prepared to see things changed when you return –‘ . . .
‘You are growing, and growth is change. Accept the change, make it a part of your strength –‘”

~Markus Zusak from THE BOOK THIEF

"'I'm an idiot.'
No, Papa.
You're just a man."

~Scott Adams

"Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."

~Markus Zusak from THE BOOK THIEF

"'What someone says and what happened are usually two different things, Rudy, especially when it comes to you.'"

~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“’Really?' the Sorcerers mocked. 'Don’t you know that everything is real?'”

~Neil Gaiman from THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

“”You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you’re dead, it’s gone. Over. You’ve made what you’ve made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”

~Stephenie Meyer from "Eclipse"

"The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So . . . good luck figuring that out."