..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

Light, the visible reminder of Invisible Light.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.