You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again

“For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being p…”

“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he…”

“I wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell …”

“She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.”