I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

“I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked …”

“The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, th…”

“Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about wh…”