“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”

“I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.”

“I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.”

“Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.”

“Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.”

“SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words?IM: So, so, so, so, so, so, so awesome.”

“Her life has seen little light. She is twelve years old but has a woman’s weathered poise. Her abyss-blue eyes have a piercing focus that some adults find unsettling. [...] She has fired a gun into a human head. She has watched a pile of bodies set alight. She has starved and thirsted, stolen food and given it away, and glimpsed the meaning of life by watching it end over and over.”