"I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose."
- R.J. Anderson
"I found her lying naked on the lawn at midnight, can I keep her?"
"I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break..."
"But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already."
"I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them."
"I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex."
"I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either."
"What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?"
"I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you."
"This is fantastically squalid," said Milo. "We may never get out of here alive."