I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

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

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged