Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

Things don't always look as they seem.