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I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

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(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

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War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by ac...more

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Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

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To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

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Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, ...more

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Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

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There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smal...more

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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence