...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

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.

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.

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem