“It is our ability to love that makes us most like the Creator…but to love in the face of loss and pain makes us more like God than ever.”

“You love with a fierce courage that I do not understand, and yet I wish that I could have it too.”

“Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.”

“Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.”

“Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.”

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

“[...] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common.”