I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.