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.

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?

She was tired of being the one who cried.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

The decision of their fates lay elsewhere, and the thought of that alone was utterly terrifying.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.