“Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”

“Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.”

“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”

“There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.”

“You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.”

“I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.”

“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”