One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.