Page 12: "I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular... encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. The moment is a catalyst--the first step in the equation. But knowing the first step will get you nowhere--it's what comes after that determines the result."
Page 66: "Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my...ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends."
Page 96: "...she didn't think anyone was looking and had let her guard down, the way you do in an empty room." "...equally fascinated and horrified by the thoughts racing through my brain."
Page 109: "...walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity, as though there was so much more to see and do and learn."
Page 114: "...remind myself that I didn't have to be embarrassed by the past and afraid of the future." "...what is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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