This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.