“Megan's right about my being a sinner. But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

“...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened.'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.''I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.”

“I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments”

“Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.”

“I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.”

“Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.”