Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.