You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

A paper town for a paper girl.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

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

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.