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I am the knight with a shining Jetta. I am your fucking steed.

There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath. And with Rhiannon, it seems as if the understanding has already surfaced. Any vestige of doubt has been swept away.

at some point last year, her gloom met my doom and she thought it was a good match. i'm not so sure, but at least i get coffee out of it.

Since Chuck's a sporting guy, I think it's only fair that I keep score of his conversation.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God," Tony says when I pick up the phone.

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.

I want my books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

The tune here is an old-fashioned town-crowd melody--kind of like how the people from the town in The Music Man might sound if Harold Hill had brought an infant homosexual to town instead of wind instruments.

Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust.

The handwriting was a girl's. I mean, you can tell. That enchanted cursive.

Rhiannon finds me like that, in the selfless reading space that the mind loans out.

And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.

It's a dull, quiet building in a dull, quiet town—its architecture as beautiful as the word municipal.

She was so oblivious that she stayed up nights worrying that I was going to get myself pregnant. There was no way to tell her the only way that was going to happen was if God himself knocked me up.

He asked me if I wrote, and I told him the truth - that I was still observing, and hadn't yet found the words.

I bought his Evidence That Demands a Verdict

The left is relentlessly assaulting our constitutional system and traditional values and viciously attacking those who resist.

The Daily Bible by F. LaGard Smith, which presents the books of the Bible in their chronological—as opposed to canonical—order

I wondered whether, if Kierkegaard had been a Catholic, they would have made him a saint by now, and built a basilica over his grave. He would make a good patron saint of neurotics.

did anyone ever use a semi-colon in a suicide note?).

Closure. I keep hearing that word. ... As soon as a show has a sense of closure, it gives you an excuse to forget you've seen the damn thing.

These naive arguments fly in the face of the scientific evidence.