“Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever thats supposed to mean. Real gravity, instead of the fake kind that broke...”

“THERE IT IS, my mother says, and what she means is that the dot weve been nearing for weeks, the one thats been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larg...”

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the worl...”

“A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. The words of a sage, he says, in the voice of a hick.”

“And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and tur...”

“There is always hope for the living.Keep hope alive.Never give in to fear.”