I’m not resentful of the fact that she decided to marry a guy who lives three thousand miles away, forcing me to leave school in the middle of my sophomore year; abandon the best—and pretty much only—...
I’m completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother’s brain when she’s dead so I can see what I’m in for as I age.
I’ll say she’s brave, Grandma chimes in. She’s going to England day after tomorrow to hump some guy she barely knows.
It’s Important to Try to MakeYour Friends Feel Good AboutThemselves as Often as Possible.Then They’ll Like You Better
It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.
It had only two points of egress, the door to the hallway from which I’d just entered, and against which I’d been pinned-and now leaned against for support-and the other to the stable yard where a man...
In the Ackerman household, it soon unfolded, you had two alternatives for how you spent your summer break: a job, or remedial tutoring. Only Doc, my youngest stepbrother - known as David to everyone b...
If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.
If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.
I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.
I wanted to know how he'd figured out I was at the hotel and not back at the paper helping CeeCee write her story, like I'd said I'd be, and he said it hadn't been hard: he just remembered that CeeCee...
I reached out and wrapped both my arms around one of John’s. Promise me we’ll never be like them, okay? I asked, with a shudder, nodding at Seth and Farah. Calling each other in that annoying way?We...
How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl?Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy...
Hey, he said, leaning back in his chair and spreading his legs wide. I’m more than willing to change my last name and give up my citizenship for you. I’ll even walk two steps behind you in public afte...
God, sit by the freak, why don't you.Excuse me, do you have Tourette's?What?Tourette's Syndrome. It's a neurological disorder that causes people to say things they don't really mean. Do you have it?No...
Get to see how he treats his mother/sister/housekeeper (critical clues as to how he will treat any prospective girlfriend).
Family wasn't just the people who had the same blood as you coursing through their veins. Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything. You had to do wha...
Dala by som čokoľvek, keby na miesto toho, aby som bola stosedemdesiatpäť centimetrov vysokou princeznou s plochou hrudou, som mohla byť stošesťdesiaťpäť centimetrovým normálnym dievčaťom s prsiami. Č...
And you know what? Maybe Michael didn’t write those notes. And maybe he doesn’tthink I’m the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that’s all that matters to me.
And if you write something that cheers someone up when they're feeling down, doesn't that change the world?