People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.