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

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.