I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.