Reading this book was like being stuck in a really long dream where everything is like real life but not at all like real life. Creeped me out, to tell you the truth. 
 Think Neverending Story, Princess Bride or Alice in Wonderland, where the real life is a bookend for the heart of the story. 
 Favorite Quotes: 
 People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad for no reason at all. 
 I just don't think happiness is a sustainable state. You can't have it all the time. That much happiness makes people unhappy. And then they start looking for trouble. They start looking for the next thing that's going to make them happy - a happiness fix. 
 You've been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. 
 I'm just saying that it's totally possible that things don't happen until you connect with an event, then the other choices you didn't make unfold in other worlds. 
 The cat's both alive and dead until you open up the box and peek at it. Until then, all possibilities exist. 
 I smoke just enough to make me slow down inside, like I'm part water bed. 
 [Mom and Dad:] look like shit, like a couple of toothpaste tubes that have been grabbed in the middle one too many times till whatever's left is too hard to get out. 
 I feel like I've swallowed this music whole. It's pretty fucking amazing the way it connects you to everybody else, makes you part of the same experience at the same time.