Nearly everything he writes makes me want to stand up and cheer. Quietly.

Quotes

He told me once...that I was a better person than my beliefs. This is one of the things we rely on our friends for: to think better of us than we think of ourselves. It makes us feel better, but it also makes us be better: we try to be the person they believe we are. (p. 45, The Czar's Daughter)

I understand now that a lot of what I felt...was the ache that young adults, still unformed and adrift and very much aware of it, feel on looking at someone who's far enough ahead of them on life's timeline to seem more settled in the world and at peace with themselves, but still close enough to beckon them on and call back, See, it's not so bad up here, keep going, you'll be fine. Whether they're happy or not they are, at least, content. They've made their choices and learned to live with them. They have, for better or worse, become themselves. (156, Chutes and Candyland)

Last winter I wore a very silly knit polar-bear-head hat that endeared me to women and children, but men often gave it and me contemptuous looks, as if the hat brought discredit upon us all. It had little ears. I don't know, maybe it's just a stupid hat. My own mother told me it made me look like a lunatic. (163, Chutes and Candyland)

There is no imposition so presumptuous as other people's love. (205, Sister World)

Studies have confirmed what's pretty obvious - having children makes people even unhappier. But what people want, above all else, is not to be happy; they want to devote themselves to something, to give themselves away. (205)

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/a...