Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.