"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"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."