We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it, ” she snaps. “That was our mistake.

I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.

When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.

You don’t know what love is until you find it, ” he whispered, “but when you do, promise me you won’t let it go. Promise you’ll seek it out even when you’re scared it’ll hurt.

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.

Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real.“Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams.

If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.

Lovers are not snails

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.