Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.