I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.