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1 " Nowadays people formulate truth; they don’t find it. "
― Lisa Samson , A Thing of Beauty
2 " The everyday Joes, like you and me, a lot of them know nothing firsthand and think they know everything. And they talk-talk-talk-talk and post their opinions all over the Internet and it’s loud and ridiculous. It’s like we’re all in this ship of fools and nobody knows if the boat is even real.” Jack looks at me. "
3 " Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places. "
4 " Maybe lime isn’t my favorite normally, but it is right now. This piece of candy tastes better because it’s his favorite, freely given, and that’s true sweetness. "
5 " This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you’d been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn’t in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you’d been missing, something you didn’t even know to look for. "
6 " They do that, you know. Miracles do. Even in the rainiest of seasons, they break through with their sparks of light and life. You just have to make up your mind not to concentrate on the rain. "