Quotes from Obert Skye

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

impossible is not a word

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

I'm man enough to know when to scream.

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.

Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

What-ifs are for fools

Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.