Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Love is the most common miracle.