“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”

“If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.”

“They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.”

“You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.”

“But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.”

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”