And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.

The man was allergic to sleep.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.