One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.