She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

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.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.