If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.