There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing.

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.