Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

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

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.