Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Teenagers think they are invincible