You see, we live only once.“And we die, only once,” he tells me.“I wanted to avoid both.

Sometimes, moments can be made of nothing.And that nothing can last. And last.

The first cause of death, Jacob now understands, is life.As long as you're alive, death is always a chance. A possibility just waiting to happen. Until it most certainly does.

As long as you're alive, death is always a chance.

You know when you're driving your car and you can't see properly so you turn the music down to see better? That's how stupid he feels right now.

Somewhere along the way, I forgot why I'm doing this.I want to be bigger. I want to be better.I want to need no one

I can remember only one thing.I want to be bigger. I want to be better. I want - people -, to need me.

if I can't change the world," he told her, "I will change the way people look at it.