About

To err is human. To be sweet is robot.

Education

• UC Davis
• New Technology High School
• The Oxbow School

Favorite saying

• ""'No place can be so poor that I do not choose it, if you are there, rather than the most beautiful place in the world where you are not, Alessandro,' she said." -Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona "What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better." -Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood "I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it." -Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed “Where do you think you’re going?” Dr. Nokes demanded…. “What do you have for directions?” And Dad… said, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen.” -Leif Enger, Peace Like A River "His hands had chiseled a manual of heaven and I held them fast." - Patti Smith, Just Kids "To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been." -Nicole Krauss, Man Walks Into A Room "Like most uncreative intellectual men, almost all of my previous relationships had been based on my ability to make incredibly moving mix cassettes; though I cannot prove it, I would estimate that magnetic audiotape directly influenced 66 percent of my career sexual encounters." - Chuck Klosterman's 'Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs' "How about a kiss, saumensch?" -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief "The absence of evidence is not the same as the evidence of absence." -Mo Elgazzar "What if you don't even like adventure?" "Learn to cultivate a taste for it." -Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone "I cried because I had no shoes and then I met a man who had no feet." "Very coherent, no? But that's okay, because love isn't supposed to make sense. It's supposed to come out in garbles and sometimes not come out at all. It is supposed to be bigger than phone calls or the distance of continents, and yet small enough to fit into a bowl of mint chip ice cream or a single sweater. You can wear love in your most loveliest and extravagant clothes and parade it about town, but you can also strip down and cry with it naked in the bathroom when you feel the need to. Because sometimes love isn't happy, and sometimes it is, and sometimes it makes you giggle, and sometimes it cracks you up so hard milk shoots out your mouth because you just can't contain it. Because HELL YEAH "I could do that" and don't you doubt for one second that those feathers aren't still in the air even after a whole fucking year of floating in the aether between two sides of the country. Little floaties ain't never coming down if we're around. Have a great day. I miss you more than many who miss you most. Please call me sometime." - Abby"