A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.