“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up…”— Susan Minot, amazon.com