I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.