Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?