...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

Books belong to their readers.

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.