- You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing, but a sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and then you swallow even though you throat, does not want to close and you look at the who loves you and smile.
- Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
- The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...
- There was time before organisms experienced consciousness. And there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you. I encourage you to ignore it. God know that#s what everyone else does.
- I clamp my hand over my mouth to contain a sob. Five more seconds. Five seconds of weakness and then I get up. One, two. Three, four. Five