She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

Every day I hold my breath until I see her. Sometimes in class, sometimes in the hallway. I can't start breathing until I see her smile at me. She always does, but the next day I'm always afraid she won't. At lunch I'm afraid she'll smile more at BT than at me. I'm afraid she'll look at him in some way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is - fear?