...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.