You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

it is the nature of stars to cross

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.