If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Things change, but they stay the same.