What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.