“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”

“One flesh, one end, bitch.”

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”

“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”

“I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.”

“According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”

“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”