"What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."
"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."
"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."