Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

That tastes like hope feels.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.