“Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.”

“It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?”

“We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.”

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”

“The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.”

“It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge”