New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.