"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'