“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”

“I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.”

“So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.”

“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things,...”