Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.