Tyler James

“His face had paled, which made the freckles on his nose and cheeks stand out. Jora liked it when humans had some face markings of their own.”
― Claudia Gray, Into the Dark

“Anger is as good at solving problems as a fan is at stacking papers”
― Leonard Scheff, The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood