Life is not a wish granting factory.
Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JP shouted, TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!Um, I said.We kissed, the Duke said.That's kinda gay, Keun said.I AM A GIRL.Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin, Keun said.
It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works.
It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
It is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves. Easy enough to say when you’re a...
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
Imagine you're trying to find someone, or even you're trying to find yourself, but you have no senses, no way to know where the walls are which way is forward or backward, what is water and what is ai...
I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.
I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
I thought you hung the moon.
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the harde...
I missed the future.
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the fina...
I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It's a real tragedy.
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.
I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my pl...
I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable.Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.