“It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.”

“Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.”

“The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.”

“It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.”

“It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.”

“Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime.”