“I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin.”

“I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.”

“The thread of the story fell to the ground, so I went down on my hands and knees to hunt for it." –”

“I went down again. My heart and I went down again. I was aware of her hand. I was aware of my breathing. I could no longer see it, but I was aware of her face.”

“I'd never heard of them, but at that moment, it was the best song I'd ever heard. I went out and bought Ten and listened to it on repeat. When I listened to track five, "Black," it was like I was there, in that moment all over again.After the summer was over, when I got back home, I went to the music store and bought the sheet music and learned to play it on the piano. I thought one day I could accompany Conrad and we could be, like, a band.”

“I saw a star slide down the skyBlinding the north as it went byToo buring and too quick to holdToo lovely to be bought or soldGood only to make wishes onAnd then forever to be gone”