That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.