"It isn't only that he died, or how he died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him."

my fave book of all time. though i find all the criticism for it valid, i think it all pales in the face of how gorgeous and incredible the writing is. i have never read anything so beautiful, and i don't know if i ever will. three years later and i still think of it often.