She was tired of being the one who cried.

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.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

With the discipline of the body comes discipline of the soul.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.