"I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come."
"Nerd life is just so much better than regular life."
"It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person."
"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."
"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."
"If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane."