“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied Will is a force that changes everything around us.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there’s a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It’s better if we don’t understand anything… and know that we don’t, tha…”— Noam Chomsky, goodreads.com
“Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Nothing is like what it is: the sun, the moon, the meadow on the other side of the mountain, the conversation we’re having, my body beneath these clothes.”— Dean Rader, amazon.com