“And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown”

“Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”

“So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.”

“And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.”

“Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.”

“I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.”

“The bad kids and the good kids and all kids... They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.”