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

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

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.

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?

You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.