Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat