“You said that once before. Actually - a slow smile curved his mouth - that's one of the reasons I came today. I'm ready to give you a lesson in loving me.”

“Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at least - was like a tightly coiled spring.”

“Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“youre ignoring me so loud that its deafening. This silence is so deep that its echoing.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that ...”

“Do it with passion or not at all.”