Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.

South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.

I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. "Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave