She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.