Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.