Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

We all use the future to escape the present.