“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”

“Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.”

“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.”

“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.”

“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”

“The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mo...”

“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.”