And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.