“Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.”

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”

“Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.”

“And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”

“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”