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he seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited five-year-old;
As that first year went on, though, the posts coming to us from Willie’s corner of the internet became something that I felt more and more uncomfortable ignoring.
If you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair or not, true or not, love won. If it was a conspiracy, at least it was the best of its kind in the world.
No one didn’t play the guitar “on principle.” Either you can play the guitar, or you can’t.
“I broke the one and only rule you told me,” she said. “ ‘Never fall in love.’ I fell in love.” “Oh, honey,” he laughed. “That’s not a real rule! I just knew you’d never find love if you were looking for it.”
Niagara Falls was a disaster. My eight-year-old daughter was the one who had begged to see it because a couple from a television show she watched got married there. But when I pointed it out to her from the car window on the drive to our hotel—“Look, Niagara Falls!”—she said it looked different than she thought it would and went back to her book.
I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.
Hopefully, the new Hitler would not have the name “Hitler,” because I think people might find that distracting.
Roses are rose. Violets are violet. I love you.
Did you flip through the book and read the shortest stories first? The author does that, too.
What is quantum nonlocality? Be concise.
Do you normally have discussions in response to a question that was posed by a person not participating in the discussion? Why or why not?
Years ago, I shared a lunch with the actor John Stamos. While we did not discuss any aspect of this book, I felt that it would be fun to include his name as a surprise for anyone casually scanning this section for names of celebrities.
Keough Novak was no help at all.
Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you’re the best.
