My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.