Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.

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.

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?

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.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

The thing is to get the work done.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.