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He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.
He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
Like it or not, Colin thought, road trips have destinations.
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, and (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
don’t think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether you’re a good person.”
You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
“They can solve a surprising number of problems, road trips,” Colin acknowledged.
