Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.