You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.
It's not just children who need heroes.
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
I don't believe in getting something for nothing.
Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.