The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

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

To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home.

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.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.