Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.