...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.