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Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
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.
“But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.”
“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.”
“You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.”
“That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.”
“You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.”
“How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.”
“I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”
“I choose you over everyone.”
“Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
“You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book…
“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
“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.”
"Emergency dance party!"
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
Wren. "hey, you should come to Omaha. jandro's here, we're going dancing later at guaca maya. fun! come!" "can't," Cath texted back. "Levi time"
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
“Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”