You made me lose my appetite, Boomer." "My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.

With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.