Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

To be human is to catch the falling person.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.