Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

We weren't doing blow jobs when I was growing up.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.