The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

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

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.