The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

A paper town for a paper girl.