We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.