Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.