"The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it."
"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."
"I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?"
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice."