"Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes."
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
"I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go."