If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.

There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.

Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.