“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”

“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”

“When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.”

“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.”

“If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.”

“Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.”

“Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose”

“I gaze up at the ceiling. Through it. Past Kim and Chip's room on the second floor into the sky, space, heaven, hell. Who says hell is down? It could be up. It could be next door to heaven. Hell could be a subset of heaven, like a ghetto in the middle of a glass city.”