Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.