I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

You bookish little pervert.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.