“For don't we all long for the comfort of absolutes?”

“Aren't all the heartbreaking days always the most beautiful ones?”

“If something is eating at you, you gotta find a way to use it.”

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

“I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”

“Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer some sort of teacherflu. Their noses drip, their eyes are rimmed with red. They come to school long enough to infect the staff room then go home sick when the sub shows up.”