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.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

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

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

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

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.