"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."
"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."
"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."
"You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice."