Wednesday Words: Obvious truths newly learned

I whirl around to face him — again, surprised by how confident I sound, considering that my heart is rushing, tumbling. Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys — maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

– Lauren Oliver, DELIRIUM

(Side question: why is YA so full of constructions like “rushing, tumbling”? Have you ever seen this in a book for adults? Now that I think about it, I think this is even more quintessentially YA than the long-short cadence I wrote about recently. What are the other stylistic quirks of YA?)

Neglected positives in the New York Times Magazine.

I find it fitting that Scalia would hate something so obviously right and just.