Life is funny, baby, and that’s no joke.
They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She’d created them. She owned them. They wouldn’t lead her astray.
I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
This must be part of Mother Nature’s master plan – making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.
The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to.
I’m liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it’s too out there.
There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.
Males are the most incomprehensible species.
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It’s an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It’s much better to be too easily interested.
Well what’s in your Amazonian hope chest?
Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.
Do you still Kill Gerbils?
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
We’re better off. But I don’t know if the world’s better off. I don’t know if the two are the same thing.
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
I’ve always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.