I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.