"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."
"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."
"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."
"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."