“I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.”
“And I admire that. A lot. The more I’m around her, the more obvious it becomes that there’s a lot more to her than a shy smile and a pretty face.”
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]”
“This hurts more than anything else because I cannot stop it.”
“..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.”
“Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.”