I am a giant squid of anger.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.