Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.

I love you present tense.

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.