I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

Books are like tweets, except longer.

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.