"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."

"I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

"But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."

"Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring."

"All I ever wanted was to know what to do."

"You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back."

"We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils."

"Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot."