I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

Things will get worse before they get better.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.