The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.