Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."