If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.