Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.