Books belong to their readers.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.