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

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.

I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.