Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.