Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

I have guts, just not when it counts.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.