Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

All writing is rewriting.

What?" I asked.
"Nothing," he said.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved en people are being used.

In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.