At last I had it—the Christmas present I’d wanted all along, but hadn’t realized. His words.
Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your...
And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.
And It's not entirely true that I've never been in love. I had a pet gerbil in first grade....
And I find myself saying, It wasn’t really about her. And finding it’s true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was abou...
Aesthetic and utilitarian considerations aside, I said, Those mittens don't particularly make sense. Why would you want to hitchhike to the North Pole? Isn't the whole gimmick of Christmas that there'...
A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....
Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)
When people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it’s usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we’re all just participants in this romantic reality show...
Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.
With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Nick says.Maybe, Nick says, w...
Why should I tell you? he asked, with no small amount of petulance.If you tell me, I will leave you alone, I said. And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson...
What’s the one thing we want when it comes to the people we love? Time. And what’s the scariest thing about how love goes? Time. The thing we want the most is the thing we fear the most, I guess. Time...
What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
What I mean, Sofia said, is that when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it’s usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we’re all just participa...
We hadn’t vowed to write every day, and we hadn’t written every day. We hadn’t sworn to be true to each other, because there hadn’t been much to be true to.
The worse people feel the next day, the better the party.
The point is that I really don't want to break up with me. In fact, what I'd like is for us to do the opposite of break up with each other.
That’s because you’re interpreting it the wrong way. I don’t mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I meant that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever chan...
Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist.