“I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder”
“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
“What do you know that you’re not telling me?""I don’t know what you know, so I don’t know what you don’t know.”
“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time.I am trying hard, Dad says.I know. You get a sticker.Thank you.Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”
“As a librarian I learned one of life’s great truths: you don’t have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.”
“It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.”