There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

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.

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

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.