The town was paper, but the memories were not.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.