JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.