“You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”

“We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.”

“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”

“Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?”

“You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.”

“No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.”

“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”