“Momentarily forgetting how wind works, Lex tried spitting at him. This failed”

“Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is the reason he left home in the first place, that the home is not his anymore, and that the crisis is him.”

“to fail a class you have to work harder to fail than to pass the class your trying to fail.”

“I didn't say try to fail. Try and risk failing. That's how people learn.”

“But that is how one learns, is it not? By trying and failing?”

“If they failed the project - when they failed the project - the book would give her one last excuse to see him. To tell him everything, she thought, letting her eyes slide closed. Everything she should have said already. She'd spit it all out, regardless of who was around to hear it. She'd tell him how she couldn't stop thinking about him, how she just wanted to be near him. She'd do the unspeakable. She'd let her hands slide inside his jacket and her arms slip around him.”