“Anger only gets in the way.”

“Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.Here in my domain, there is no one to protect.”

“Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.”

“Imagine being the only two free humans in all the world”

“I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away”

“I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.”

“Hope is a thing made only for people, a scrap to hold ontoin darkness and in light”