We all use the future to escape the present.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.