But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed

If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.