The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

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

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.