One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.