You are fairly smart, I said after a while.You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.'
Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.
With all the planning she’d done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn’t have been totally immune to the feeling. She’d had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become...
Why are breakfast food breakfast foods? I asked them. Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?Hazel, eat.But why? I asked. I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusi...
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..
When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been aske...
Well, Ben went on,someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world's largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They're located in a special display case known as 'my sc...
We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek.
We think that we are invincible because we are.
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be...
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while dri...
Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm g...
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on ear...
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existe...
They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.
They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
They don't kill you unless you light them, he said as Mom arrived at the curb. And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you dont' give it t...
There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there w...
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.