“ He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for in the end our bodies know only how to carry on surviving.That is our strength,… Nick Lake
“ ...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows. Nick Lake
“ I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise. Nick Lake
“ I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to l… Nick Lake
“ One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner of men, and men were not made to be owned. Nick Lake
“ It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes. Nick Lake
“ There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairsThe heart is the… Nick Lake
“ When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or… Nick Lake
“ This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks. Nick Lake
“ Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible. Nick Lake
“ Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood. Nick Lake
