He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

Bono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen." "What about Romeo and Juliet?" "Shallow, confused," then dead. "I love you, Park says. "Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers. "I’m not kidding," he says. "You should be.

Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.