Life works best when we think of people as people.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

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 are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.