“And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.”

“So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of the universe"......."And you say you don't write poetry.”

“So much depends on this observer of the universe.”

“you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.”

“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ”

“I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.”

“Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.”