If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

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

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.