If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

I watch Raffy as she removes the pickles from her hamburger and hands them over to Santangelo without them exchanging a word and I realize again there is more to that relationship than spelling bees and being enemies. These people have history and I crave history. I crave someone knowing me so well that they can tell what I'm thinking.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

You're good enough, Jacob.

We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy. "And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says. Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them. "Lamb roast. Am I invited?

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.