I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn't I ever seen it before.

I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.

I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts