The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you'll think "they'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

Love is tied to truth.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.