Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to 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.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

I have a very small public.