I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.

The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever."I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldn't imagine a better way to die.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.