I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.