This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it -- what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face -- not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all. Kat's micromuscles are very attractive.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.