“I think,' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.”

“Because that is how one survives eternity, I say, or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.”

“But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

“How can we prepare for the future if we wont acknowledge the past?”

“I definitely havent been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where ther...”

“She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”