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

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

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day, and you walk by them on your way to something else, and you hardly see. You hardly notice they're even there, mostly because there's something else going on right in front of your face, But when the town itself becomes the thing that is going on right in front of your face, it all changes, and you're not just looking at a house, but at what's happened in that house before you were born.

Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's what you're like, and that's what you're always going to be, and so you just decide to be it? But the whole time you're thinking, Am I going to be like him? Or am I already like him? And then you get angrier, because maybe you are, and you want... He stopped. He wiped at his eyes. I'm not lying. My brother wiped at his eyes.

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

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