“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are...”

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living hu...”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”