"I'm not going to lie, though. It's nice that everything's easy for us. It's a good feeling knowing that you can basically do whatever you want and there won't be any consequences...Nobody ever said life was fair" (p. 13).

"Isn't it kind of weird how that stuff happens? How everything spirals out from everything else? It's like a web, you know? Everything's connected" (p. 30).

"Plato believed that the whole world - everything we can see - was just like shadows on a cave wall. We can't actually see the real thing, the thing that's casting the shadow in the first place" (p. 68).

"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets" (p. 76).

"Maybe when you die time folds in on you, and you bounce around inside this little bubble forever...It's not what I imagined death would be like -...