I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had