there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

Is the labyrinth living or dying?

Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?