Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.