You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

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

Imagine others complexly.

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.