Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.