Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are vis...
No puedo hablar sobre nuestra historia de amor, así que hablaré sobre matemáticas. No soy una matemática, pero sé esto: hay infinitos números entre el 0 y el 1. Hay .1 y .12 y .112 y una infinita cole...
Me: Touch the cave wall.Computer: You touch the cave wall. It is moist.Isaac: Lick the cave wall.Computer: I do not understand. Repeat?Me: Hump the moist cave wall.Computer: You attempt to jump. You h...
May I see you again? he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice. I smiled. Sure.Tomorrow? he asked.Patience, grasshopper, I counseled. You don't want to seem overeager. Right, that's wh...
Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
Listen, kid. This is what happens: Somebody-girl usually-got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string...
Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything pretti...
Like any good teacher, she tolerated little dissension. She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my notebook as the muddy waters of tangents and cosines began to...
Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place.
I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
It’s a song soldiers in England used to sing to the tune of the New Year’s song, Auld Lang Syne. It goes, We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here.
It's the eternal struggle, Pudge. The good versus the naughty. ...Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
It's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love no matter what.
It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
It must be some book, she said as she knelt down next to the bed...Did that boy give it to you? She asked out of nowhere. By 'it' do you mean herpes? You are too much, Mom said, The book, Hazel. I mea...
Interesting capitalization,' I said.'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.
If you go to the Rijksmuseum, which I really wanted to do- but who are we kidding, neither of us can walk through a museum. But anyway, I looked at the collection online before we left. If you were to...
If there’s one thing I know, it’s that there’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos