The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.