Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.