“This is what he'd always known: the promise of something greater beyond the water's final horizon.”

“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”

“I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.”

“I always had to buy a book, even if I wasn't done with the one I was currently reading. I loved to read. I felt like the trun of each page echoed between the covers of the world inside them-and each book had its own rules. There, within the mystique of that connection, was something special, and I was an addict.”

“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.""Crash.""Quite slowly."Face & Luke”

“I think mostly about intention and obstacle somebody wants something somethings standing in their way of getting it.”

“Always give your 100%. It may vary day to day, but it's always all you've got.”