We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.