The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.

The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.