How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell... - Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."

"I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me."

"Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it up and flung it at my crush."

"Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me."

"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."