Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.