School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

All I get is tomorrow.