“ The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin thei… Dana Reinhardt
“ There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen. Dana Reinhardt
“ I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls. Dana Reinhardt
“ The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge. Dana Reinhardt
“ As the bus took us north on a connection of dark farm roads and smaller highways, I started to wonder where all the cars were. How could the streets be so empty? How could people sleep when there was… Dana Reinhardt
“ But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point out that your friend hasn't touched her chicken fingers or French fries and not point that maybe she'… Dana Reinhardt
“ I'd watched enough TV in the lonely afternoons after school, before there was a cheese shop to go to, to know that there were boys who lied, who knew how to say just the right thing or give you just t… Dana Reinhardt
“ My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too. Dana Reinhardt
“ The Little Drummer Boy" was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks. Dana Reinhardt
“ It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives… Dana Reinhardt
“ I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd alway… Dana Reinhardt
“ Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before… Dana Reinhardt
“ I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything. Dana Reinhardt
“ They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter. Dana Reinhardt
