"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."
"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."
"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"
"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."