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

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.