Matthew Hintzen

“No one asks to be born. And no one wants to die. We don’t bring ourselves into the world, and when it’s time for us to leave, the decision will not be ours to make. But what we do with the time in between the day we are born and the day we die, that is what constitutes a human life. You will have to make choices—and those choices will map out the shape and course of your life. We are all cartographers—all of us. We all want to write our names on the map of the world.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“If you strike yourself while hammering a nail, you can either suck your thumb for the rest of your life or get on with building yourself a home.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Thunder

“No wheelchair can support damaged self-esteem until it learns to stand upright. No cane can help emotions limp along until they can walk. A cast or brace can’t protect a vulnerable spirit, and not even the strongest painkiller can stop the ache caused by a failed relationship. No, the only way a broken heart mends itself is with stitches of time and the sticky tape of hastily rearranged dreams.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Spring

“Don’t ever let the hate rob you of the life you’ve been given.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World