You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?

‎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.

I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.