Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.
But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.
Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not use...
People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.
Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go...
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, Is this as good as it gets?
Winning isn't everything, Eisenhower said faintly. Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
You know how to steer a yacht? Mr. McIntyre asked Ian worriedly.I was born knowing how to steer a yacht, Ian said. Then a stricken look came over his face. But–do you suppose Jonah prepaid the full am...
At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.
Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?
Staring into the ring of candles—proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake
He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.
He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought, Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.....He breathed in the too-sweet...
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
But did he go to heaven? Katherine persisted. That's between him and God, not him and history, JB said.Alex started, jerking so spastically that he kicked the basketball and would have sent it spinnin...
Is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?
We can hope.
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.
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