I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.