I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or your sister. Even if they don't, like, recognize it, you feel it. And in a lot of ways it don't matter if they do or they don't see that for what it is - all you can do is put the feeling out there. That's your duty. Then you just wait and see what comes back to you. That's the deal.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.