Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.

What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.

There was just no fear in her.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.