I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

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

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.