The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.