Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.

Smiles like that should be against the law. Considering what they do to a girl.

I can't kill someone!" "You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher." "But that was family! And I didn't kill him.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.