hi, puppy." she's not a puppy. She's a girl," Nancy's mother says. Nancy pats me and says, "Good puppy. Nice puppy." When he mother bends down to pull her away, she wraps both arms around my legs and wails. "No! My puppy!

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.