It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.