This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

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

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.