Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

I do, Augustus. I do.