Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don´t do it

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.

No one should gain access to the important areas of your life if you are not absolutely sure they are there for good reason.

I may a loser in many ways but not a quitter in any way.

Only cooked time tastes well

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.