We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.