The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

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

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.