So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.