“One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.”

“You cannot shoot your way a little bit into a war any more than you can go a little bit over Niagara Falls.”

“Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.”

“Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.”

“No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure was going to give him the joys or the terrors that must accompany pregnancy- that must, for teen girls, make sex a walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope.”

“The cure for unhappiness is happiness,I don't care what anyone says.- Niagara Falls All Over Again(via A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby)”