Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

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