I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.