‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.