Quotes from Lauren Baratz-Logsted

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know?

The world, I sometimes think, is filled with someone liking someone who likes someone else who likes someone else.

It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them.

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan!

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do. (42)

Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.

He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.

But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.

that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.

It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.

Because I want to go to the dance," I said. "But why can't you go as a boy? Won't it be risky going as a girl?" Of course it would be risky. But everything I'd done for the past four months had been risky. I took a deep breath before speaking. "I want to go as a girl, because I want to dance with a particular boy." Mrs. Smithers rolled her eyes at this. "There's always a boy, isn't there?

Violence: these days, it is all the rage

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture

Whatever happens, I will stand beside her. ~Lucius

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home?

the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world.

It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.

I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.

I will become her Gallowglass

Does not a child recognize her own mother?

So," she says slowly, reviewing my case item by item, "you like ice holes, sinkholes, peepholes and blowholes?" I nod. "But not loopholes?" I nod again. Hole this, hole that – even when I'm determined not to just be myself , I'm such an asshole. I just can't help it.

You realize that life is simply too short to keep being someone you're not.