In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.