The truth hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
Nerd girls are the world’s greatest under-utilized romantic resource.
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...
March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence.
As a reader, I don’t feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
If I’m too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
Nerdighters make me believe in America again.
Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
I’m at the eye doctor. I’m always at the eye doctor. It’s like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I’m now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn’t pay well.
Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.
I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it’s impossible to tell because I’m underwater.
I don’t have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what ‘DFTBA’ means, and those who don’t.
You can’t not like ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It’s got the best sentences in, like, ever.
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they’ve had fewer of them. It’s like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
It’s hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don’t have robots or explosions.
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.