The Pause Makes You Think The Song

No One Is Waiting For Me. In This Story, I'm The Girl No One Is Waiting For.

Everybody Sounds Stoned, Because They're E-mailing People The Whole Time They're Talking To You.

Some Mornings... I Sit At The Kitchen Table Shaking Salt Into The Hairs On My Arm, And A Feeling Shoves Up In Me: It's Finished. Everything Went Past Without Me.

I Guess It's Always Romantic When Two People Fall In Love.... Even If It Turns Out Not To Be Real.

I Felt More Doubtful Than Usual With 'goon Squad,' Because I Knew That The Book's Genre Wasn't Easily Named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - And I Worried That Its Lack Of A Clear Category Would Count Against It. My Hopes For It Were Pretty Modest.