He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

I do love you and what else matters but that

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.