She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.