I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.