“ I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I… Patrick Carman
“ Twenty minutes into our walk away from the wall put us deep in a forest of fir, pine, cottonwood, and aspen trees. The lush forest floor was alive and danced with shadows cast from an endless parade o… Patrick Carman
“ But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones. Patrick Carman
“ It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next. Patrick Carman
“ In my view, there are many different kinds of hugs. There are the ones you give to huggers, people who hug all the time. These, to me, are by far the least special of all hugs. I see the outstretched… Patrick Carman
“ I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were a reminder of how each of us had certain abilities that the rest did not. It was as if we were each… Patrick Carman
“ Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans ar… Patrick Carman
“ But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world? Patrick Carman
“ We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again. Patrick Carman
“ That thing, that tiny part of The Land of Elyon, is gone but not entirely forgotten. Elyon had his reason for sending you and me on this journey. Sometimes we see something as plain as a dying leaf an… Patrick Carman
“ I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how va… Patrick Carman
“ She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of ho… Patrick Carman
“ Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that. Patrick Carman
“ It's never too late to stop believing a lie," said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both. Patrick Carman
“ In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer m… Patrick Carman
“ Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another. Patrick Carman
“ As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living. Patrick Carman
