It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.