Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.