Jeanette Walls

... I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

So that__ why I__ such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it__ less about __hose people_. Because I think we__e all __hose people_.