I’m gonna miss you, Brianna says.I’m gonna miss you too, baby, Angelo murmurs.For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.
It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squir...
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.
It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there no black or white. There are gradations of gray.
It's choice that makes us human.
It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.
It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken.
It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us h...
It was the sort of place where you could hear the tumblers of your mind falling into place as you pieced thought together, as you tried to match it to action.
It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.
It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.
It takes two people to make a friendship work
It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, fee...
It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll h...
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you’ve never truly...
It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him...
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.