It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

No headboards were broken.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.