If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

Okay is BURSTING with sensuality

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.