“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”

“A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.”

“To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.”

“At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.”

“One day things can be going along like they always were and then, suddenly, in a simple rotation of an overheated planet, everything can change.”

“My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.”

“I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.”