I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say.

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.