Caroline Kepnes

I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I'll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory's Greatest Hits, but that's about it.

People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it__ their birthday because Facebook told them.

Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

The problem with books is that they end.

But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can__ fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

... and you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we've been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you're so nervous and excited that you keep talking about shoes as if you have to keep talking about shoes or you might jump me right here, on the steps. I chose this spot because my whole fucking life I've walked by these steps and seen couples that make me feel alone, rejected. And now there are loners passing by you and me, jealous, and you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we__e never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything

There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.

Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn__ love you, it__ not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.

And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.