Sans souffrance, comment connaître la joie? (Un point de vue que j'avais toujours trouvé d'une stupidité et d un manque de finesse inouïs. Pour le démontrer, il suffisait de dire que, même si le broc...
Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
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.
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's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.
It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
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...
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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.
In the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.
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 taking a pill makes you different, like, if it changes the way-down you . . . that's just a screwed up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me means--me or the employees of the factory that make Lex...
I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.
I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
I was thinking about this girl you love so much, she said, And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.