The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.