“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

“There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.”

“Hurry means that we gather impressions but have no experiences, that we collect acquaintances but make no friends, that we attend meetings but experience no encounter. We must recover eternity if we are to find time, and eternity is what Jesus came to restore. For without it, there can be no charity.”

“Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.”

“We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.”

“Can we really choose anything?''Maybe. If we want to bad enough.”