- "I feel that crying is amost - like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever - totally avoidable if you follow two simple rules: 1. Don't care too much. 2. Shut up." (p. 5)
- "Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does." (p. 19)
- "i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me." (p. 22)
- "i do not say 'good-bye'. i believe that's one of bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye'. every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe that. i believe against that." (p. 23)
- "Some people have lives; some people have music." (p. 41)
- "I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal." (p. 42)
- "You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot." (p. 43)
- "... you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed-out race. but we're not. so it's like, mom, your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass." (p. 65)
- "me: you know what sucks about love? / o.w.g.: what? / me: that it's so tied to truth." (p. 125)
- "the tears are starting to come back because that pain - i know i'm giving up it all. isaac. hope. the future. those feelings. that world. i'm giving up all, and that hurts." (p. 125)
- "the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end." (p. 126)
- "my mind is having a heart attack." (p. 143)
- "Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that." (p. 192)
- "Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are." (p. 261)
- "I'm with Phil Wrayson" ♥ (p. 283)
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