You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

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.