And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.