He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.