“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

“Hello?” I called.I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

“In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.”

“Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.”

“I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.”

“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”

“I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.”