"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving."
— Jodi Picoult

""You are far more likely to be devoured than empowered by your sense of romance." "
— The Cribs

"...it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

"There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell such people things, it is too disruptive."
— Alice Munro Haagensen

"“What is it?” John asked.

The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow.

“It is the world, my boy,” he said. “All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose.”"
— The Imaginarium Geographica

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
— C. S. Lewis