Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.