I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.