Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.