“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”
“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”
“Men suck.
- Not all men. Just the really good ones.”
“Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. ”
“In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.”
“Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.”
“She seems to think being cryptic is some kind of substitute for having a decent personality.”
“There’s always music,” he replied, “if you listen carefully enough.”
“A TELEPHONE YOWLED in Chris’s ear, and he scrabbled at his side for a sword that wasn’t there.”
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
“And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It's enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people.”
“Children don’t need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged.”
“Es fácil imaginar que la enorme capacidad humana para las actividades sociales, para manipular a los demás, para la política, y para la acción concertada del tipo que da como resultado grandes y complejas sociedades, surge de esta habilidad para ponerse en el lugar del otro y manipular la atención y el interés de esa otra persona.”
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