“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid”

“He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.”

“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”

“Nothing but trees.”

“If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.”

“Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.”

“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”

“since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan w...”

“Shes kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, shes turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-for...”