“Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.”
“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”
“There are only two emotions, love and fear. Love and fear is all there is--everything else is just an offshoot, motivated by those two.”
“Appearances are really just manifestations of how we see ourselves. And so, with that in mind, the way you see yourself, well, it has a direct effect on what you become, and how others see you.”
“He rambled.
Oh boy, did he ramble.
He rambled in a way that was nothing but
a bunch of bippidy blah blah to my ears.
Rambled in a way that made my head go
all dizzy and squeezy.”
“Free will is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's the only way to realize your true destiny.”
“dreamweaves were doing more harm than good. They were endangering people, making them believe in a false sense of security. Resulting in a population of delusional people, running around, taking unnecessary risks. And I think we all know that nothing good comes of that!”
“Love and fear. Love and fear is all there is—everything else is just an offshoot, motivated by those two.”
“Can I come back tomorrow? And if so, do I get to go first?”
“seen my grandfather, who’d always seemed so old and serious in all of his photos, whooping and hollering as he surfed a fifty-foot wave.”
“Heya, newbie!” Newbie? I squinted. Not quite sure how to take that.”
“Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.”
“Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.”
“He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.”
“Stare at him," said Ghost. "They won't bite you if you keep staring at them."
Steve backed away. "They bite?"
Not really. They hiss at you, mostly. The only time geese are ever dangerous is when you happen to be standing on the edge of a cliff. I heard about a guy that almost got killed that way."
By geese?"
Yeah, there was a whole flock of them coming after him. All hissing and cackling and stabbing at his ankles with their big ol' beaks. He didn't know you had to stare them right in the eye, and he panicked. They backed him right over a fifty-foot cliff."
So how come he didn't die?"
This guy had wings," said Ghost. "He flew away.”
“The new trick is to stay in the present ... Get lost in the detail of it ... Enjoy it!”
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