She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.

I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.