The next day I picked up my electric guitar and amp at a tag sale. Grandma Dotty loves tag sales, and somehow she managed to bargain with the guy who was selling them, until we paid just three dollars
The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.I saw that movie too!I said.It was like the coolest movie of a...
The guy’s got a CCI sheet so long it begins with ‘Call me Ishmael.
The guys were totally skuzzy, grinning horribly, showing holes where teeth should be. Fang intoned behind them. I thought, dumbfounded. Wha! they said, whirling. At that moment, Fang snapped out his...
Spend your money thoughtfully & secretly, you walk free. That was the way it was in america these days. Who knows? Maybe it had always been that way
Soovee? I ask. Did Mom make it so you can drive yourself? Correct. This is so cool! says Trip. Yesterday, Dr. Hayes mounted a range finder to my roof housing a 64-beam laser. So that’s what she was do...
Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.
Quote from James Patterson's book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you'r...
Purple is such a twisted, complex color - it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too - fiery d...
Plus, if I can wax philosophical for a paragraph, there's an even more fundamental principle involved here, and it apples to everything from what you decide to do for a living, to making an omelette,...
People Trust Me with their secrets, and I'm not sure why. It must be something in my face, probably my eyes.
Pain fades, I said slowly. But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here? The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.
Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess—up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks li...
My name’s J.J., she said, seeming completely comfortable with this social interaction. My palms were sweating. It’s short for Jennifer Joy. I mean, what were my parents thinking?
More people play soccer than the four of those sports put together, and the World Cup pits all nations against all nations, with almost every country on earth competing during the four years of qualif...
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world,not just your friends.I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was l...
Max: Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you.Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy)Max: (throws another pinecone at him)Iggy: Quit throwing things at me!Max: Glad you could join us.
Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant:They're afraid of change, and we must change.They're afraid...
Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one woul...