Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.