Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.