I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.