..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

People always get used to beauty though.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.