I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

Tobias asked. "Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.