So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.