We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

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

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.