How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

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.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.