"But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."
"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"
"Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."