Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.

Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.