Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

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.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.