History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

He missed her like crazycakes.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.