Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.But then she felt betraya...
The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But
My brother, Langston, said, Lily, you don’t understand because you’ve never been in love. If you had a boyfriend, you’d understand. Langston has a new boyfriend and all I understand from that is a sor...
Lily was mittens and hot chocolate and snow angels that lifted from the ground and danced in the air. She said she loved winter, and I wondered if there was any season she didn’t love. I worked hard t...
I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular
I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, e...
Game over, you say, and I don’t know which I take more exception to—the fact that you say that it’s over, or the fact that you say it’s a game. It’s only over when one of us keeps the notebook for goo...
Who's Jessie?My YugoYou have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick.Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this neth...
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?
The Secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is know when to compromise.For instance.
She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal. It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest? Merry Christmas, Dad. An...
One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
It’s like nothing else exists in the world right now except him, me, touching, exploring, longing, needing, sharing, having. So much for my straight-edge vow, because I am drunk on our ing’s.
I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against t...
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, whic...
He pauses a moment to reflect on the F-word. 'Sometimes I think it's an idea that enslaves us. We're never free from hungering for the notion that we can even have freedom. When perhaps it's the very...