All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

Something invisible snapped inside her.