The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!