So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

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

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun other than having a sexualized relationship. It’s not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever, that doesn’t mean that you’ve had some kind of failed life.