But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.