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"History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions."
"You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet."
"I think forever is an incorrect concept."
"We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend."
"I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."
"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost."
"By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy."
"High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most."
"Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect."
"As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know."
"I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else."
"Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource."
". . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings."
"I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb."
"Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster."
"But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER."
"Study broadly and without fear."
"Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere."
"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."