There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

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

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.