So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?

Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

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.

Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.