We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.