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.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

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

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

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