I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.