Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get, " she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.

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.

If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.

The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

The existence of God is infinite love itself.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.