“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”
“I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.”
“I guess nothing says 'I'm sorry' like a tea cozy.”