So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!