Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.