People always get used to beauty though.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.