What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

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

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.