"All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of."

"The sun was setting, throwing a fog-like dusk across the stream and trees, and there was a coolness in the air. It was time, I knew, to be getting back to camp. But I did not want to move. For I had t…"

"They should be learning, they shouldn't be bunking off and it's very irresponsible for people to encourage children to do so."

"It was just easier. She understood now why adults lied to children. It wasn’t love. It was exhaustion."

"Meaning from the cosmic perspective would be good for extensions of the same reasons that meaning from the other perspectives is good. People, quite reasonably, want to matter. They do not want to be …"