Dan

“When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.

And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“What is China but a people and their stories?”
― Gene Luen Yang, Boxers