In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.