Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.