Because you're my friend, wingnut.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

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.