It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.

And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.