“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report? Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes." Calvin: Academia, here I come!”

“Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”

“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.”

“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”