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

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

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

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53