I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.