Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

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

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.