It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

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

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.