Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can

A ring is a halo on your finger.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.