“ I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?That would be… Dale Peck
“ Children, Mrs. Oakenfeld sighed.I do not want you to be good to avoid being punished. I do not want you to be good so that you can receive rewards. I want you to be good, she stressed, because it is t… Dale Peck
“ Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past. Dale Peck
“ Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too. Dale Peck
“ There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of… Dale Peck
“ Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college.And then?My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day.There don't always have to be a then. He po… Dale Peck
“ I hate it when people repeat the last thing that’s been said to them because they’re too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. You want to remember this moment, I said finally, because when… Dale Peck
“ You are - she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - Sprout Bradford?I thought it was a little pretentious to say You are Sprout Bradford? instead of Are you Sprout Bradford? so… Dale Peck
“ You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex. Dale Peck
