Girls donโt 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, donโt snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while theyโve given up and try to lure someone else.
Wendelin Van DraanenI wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
Wendelin Van DraanenWhat I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
Wendelin Van DraanenIt's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
Wendelin Van DraanenAnd 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.
Wendelin Van Draanen