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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

I love the way you look when reading a book - content and dreamy, off in another world.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

For sure, the last thing I was going to write to her was All I want for Christmas is you.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance - a frequaintance, as it were.

Danger is a state of mind." Farzad informs me. "Conquer it, and you ride heaven.

The more he gives me, the more I want.

There are certain things a girl just knows, like that a fourth minute on a punk song is a bad, bad idea,

His absence is time gained to spool my un-truths.

Christmas could begin. Magic could happen.

I know we're all following the same yellow brick road, looking for that ultimate band, that ultimate night to be remember.

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it."

- Dash

And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning.

The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.

The first person I think of when I wake up in the morning, the last person I hope for when I fall asleep at night.

He sold the business but kept the corner block building,

Snarl must love Christmas as much as me, I decided.

I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.

I started to write: Langston deserves to be sick. But I erased that and wrote, Okay. I'll make him some.

I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.

(1) give me a project to keep me occupied so he could have Benny all to himself over Christmas

I don't think we should ever try to meet again; there's such freedom in that. Instead, let our words continue to meet. (See next postcard.)

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.

It wasn't about the fantasy. That was
now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.

At last I had it - the Christmas present I'd wanted all along, but hadn't realized. His words.

Ouch. Cursing - not so dashing.

The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise.

We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things.

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state.

We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. - Nick

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

I already know the words. I just need to learn the beat. This tone-deaf white girl will try to make music out of recovery.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet.
I want to roar

A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.

She smells like marijuana smoke. It's not a bad smell. Just a sad one.

You bookish little pervert.

And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.

Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

True Love. I'm starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney. - Cupcake

I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.

Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.

Fresca, or Diet Rite?" I asked. "I'll have a Fanta," she said.

All I ever think about is food or sex.

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to be alone with me that much.

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

the infinite Manhattan night.

Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.

It was Chaos on Glitter Ice. A massacre of librarians.

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

and everything about me goes from crying out to just plain crying

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

A bum slumped in a corner seat called out, Give the girl a dance already, ya bum!

Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I

Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him.
"What?" said Dash.
"True love.

Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

The scene is very Sopranos meets Rent.

He was obstinate in the way that only truly miserable people can be obstinate.

And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books

I shouldn't, but I do.
I trust.

Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

And It's not entirely true that I've never been in love. I had a pet gerbil in first grade....

Dash believed in magic. Dash loved Christmas. Dash loved me!

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.