And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.