While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.