I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

"Which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach." Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. "Stomp them." she said, under her breath. "Really."

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.