Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence