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.

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

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.

He smiled. Gallows humor.

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

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.