One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

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

We all use the future to escape the present.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.