Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

I lurve you, circus freak," Cabel says. It almost hurts to hear him say that. I lurve you, too, you big lumpy monster man," Janie says. That hurts even more to say.

They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic.

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife

You - best secret boyfriend ever.

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him.