I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.