“I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”

“I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.”

“I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.”

“Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.”

“It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.”

“you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places”

“The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.”