Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.