But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?””I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t...

I didn’t want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.

I missed him desperately, even though he’d said he hated me, even though his anger—the rampage at his house, the X through his yearbook page, the cruel way he withdrew from everyone—scared me. I didn’t...

its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there’s nothing between me and this weight but...

If you’d only let me come by myself, none of this would have happened. Having you around makes everything worse.’She buried her head under her pillow. ‘Stop it! you’re so cold! You’re heartless, you little...

What else could have happened? Car wouldn’t start? House caught on fire? Escaped convict climbed through his bedroom window and tied him with duct tape? Poison eggnog? Or maybe I just didn’t matter to him.

The students adore your father,’ a perfumed woman said to me. ‘Aren’t you lucky to live with such a charming man!”He’s even more charming at home,’ Mom said. ‘Isn’t he, Bea? He rides a unicycle...

Laura, this isn’t love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you’ll come back.”No, it can’t.’ The afternoon shadows grew long and cold....

he’s stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he’s a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn’t want.

I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I’d turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.