"What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."
"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 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."