It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.