“Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?”

“I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, "The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home". It does, doesn't it?”

“You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?”

“I always thought the allusive “O” that girls always talked about was an urban legend, but Connor is quickly turning me into a believer.”

“Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen”

“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”