“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”— Andrew Harvey, amazon.com
“Suzanne Collins does an amazing job of showing us, basically, a world that looks a lot like the world that we live in, and having us look at it and say, "how could anyone live in a world like that?" She also does a really admirable job of not blaming the participants of that society.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“It's worth remembering that seven hundred years later, we don't remember the individuals who built the Belfry or dug the canals; we don't remember their political affiliations or even their nationalistic identities; we remember them as a collective, just as we ourselves will be remembered as a colle…”— John Green, youtube.com
“I think we owe both the dead and the not-yet-living precisely the same thing: the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Crime is not actually caused by evil; it's caused by systematic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities and education.”— John Green, youtube.com
“She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com
“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad and lonely.”— Markus Almond, amazon.com
“If you could change the whole world in one way, what would it be?”— Louise MacGregor, herinterest.com
“All you need is one person to believe in you and the world is yours. Just one.”— Brian Aspinall, twitter.com
“To change the world, start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.”— Dave Matthews Band, youtube.com
“We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change.”— Dave Matthews Band, youtube.com
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“When the world turns its back on you, YOU turn your back on the world.”— Nathan Lane, Timon, amazon.com