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

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

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

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

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.

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

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.