"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."
"The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention."
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."