Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.