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.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.