I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

That tastes like hope feels.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.