"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
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"As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education."
"When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled."
"I lost my faith in my faithlessness. I believe I’m a nonbeliever now."
"I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn’t alone anymore."
"God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes."
"To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike."
"Your Poem A poem is a waking dream.If your poem is shit,then it was a fucking nightmare."
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
"There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't."
"So that's it?"Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?""What?""All of this,"Kenji says, waving a hand in the air, "has nothing to do with him being all sexy and shit and him being able to touch you all the time?""You think Warner is sexy?""That is not what I said."
"I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it."
"I'll go,"he said."And that's safer because?""I'm a guy.""Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?"
"We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
"If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you."
"It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes."
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
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