You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

We all romanticize the people we adore.