"There are conversations that you’ll have in a car you’d otherwise never have. If no one else could hear you, if you weren’t sitting so close, if the driver didn’t have to look at you, if there wasn’t always the possibility you could crash and die. Ray told me stuff I’d never tell anybody."

— Elissa Schappell, “Aren’t You Dead Yet?” from Blueprints for Building Better Girls, which I am currently reading and will be recommending to every single person I know and don’t know. Perfect way to kick off my 2012 year in reading. (via housingworksbookstore)