"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"
"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."
"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."