“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”
“Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.”
“A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.”
“What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?”
“The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.”
“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”