It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the lover’s house and maybe a couple of things which aren’t technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.