Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.