Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal.Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.
It was fine, I said stiffly. We played Mouse Trap.Is that what they're calling it these days? she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself...
It makes you very cool, he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!
I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around....
A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.
I am getting so sick of looking at this kidney, I said.It's a farce, Jazza replied. They act like they're shocked and horrified, and then they show it off twenty times a day.Have you seen the singing...
Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, I'm going in! I'm going in! like a manic cave diver.
All the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds.
Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.
I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to...
When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down t...
The best I ever got was that woman who kept having me come up to fix her TV. There was a lot of bending involved. I felt used and dirty.It’s the price you pay for being one of those weedy but good-loo...