I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Emergency dance party--go away.

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

She was tired of being the one who cried.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

that's as nutty as squirrel turds

Mostly birthmarks is what I learned about Sandra Bullock that I wasn't aware of.