How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.
Neal ShustermanThen she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.
Neal ShustermanHow can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?
Neal ShustermanWith hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
Neal ShustermanWho says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
Neal ShustermanIt 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.
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