You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.