This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

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

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.