You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.