It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you,” Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, “ that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?” Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I’d seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.