Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'