People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

They're book addicts.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.