Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said. “Don’t you want it?” “Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.” “Why?” Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?” “Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said. “So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.