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.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.

I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma." "You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.