Paper Towns

To Julie Strauss-Gabel, without whom none of this could have become real

And after, when

we went outside to look at her finished lantern

from the road, I said I liked the way her light

shone through the face that flickered in the dark.

—“Jack O’Lantern,” Katrina Vandenberg in Atlas

People say friends don’t destroy one another

What do they know about friends?

—“Game Shows Touch Our Lives,” The Mountain Goats