Language buries, but does not resurrect.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.