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

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

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.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

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.

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