Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

Suffering is universal.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.