I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.