I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

He taught me to trust in tomorrow.

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.