Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.