“nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely. ”

“No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?""That doesn't happen to me""Oh.”

“I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.”

“If this is about sleeping on the floor, I'll do it," I said. "Because I don't mind." "No, but do you want to take a picture of my nest? It's very romantical.”

“For some reason, he belonged more in Wisconsin. Because of me, because I was there. Not that I ever managed to talk to him for more than ten minutes, and not that I ever had the nerve to ask him out. But still, I loved him. Deeply.”

“Why was it that whenever I started to not detest him, he did something like this?”

“Sometimes it’s better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.”