I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.