Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.