i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.