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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant ...more

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That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told....more

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I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Ala...more

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I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory...more

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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could nev...more

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I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I h...more

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There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimag...more

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

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Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. ...more