Quotes from Sarah Mlynowski

I'm a pretty good dancer," Lion says. "Do you want to see me Floss?" "No," she says, frowning. "Flossing will not help you save your friends and defeat the witches!" She is clearly exasperated. "I can do the Macarena," Tin Man adds. The guardian sighs and shakes her head. "Save the Wizard first. Then get your friends. Then you can practice your dance moves.

He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.

Why?" Pi asked. "What are your secret thoughts?" "Nothing," Mackenzie blurted out. Don't think about it, don't think about it. Tess shook her head. She doesn't want the whole school knowing she cheated on Cooper. Aha. "Tess!" Mackenzie yelled. Tess clamped her hand over her mouth. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to think it!

The school didn't want us mixing with the rest of the senior class. Which was ridiculous. We had ESP, not Ebola. A curriculum had been tailored just for us, to help us prepare for what lay ahead. Not that anyone knew what lay ahead. It's not like there had ever been an entire class of telepaths before. Yup.

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that's not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of Is became a we.

I'm hungry. Do you have any Cheetos?" "Cheetos?" I screech. "We've somehow been transported from our basement to a forest in the middle of the night, and you're thinking about Cheetos?

I got my hair soaked! This is a heart attack! The earthworms say: You should love me back!

down a pair of rain boots, she thought, but I'm definitely up in friends.

Or," Jonah adds, panting, "if she sees us in her room, she might get freaked out and throw Frederic

safe and then sneak over to the

feet were the rootiest part of the human body.

Something like a little faucet, I think.

off-the-shoulder

Well, there are other versions of the story," I say, thinking out loud. "Besides the throwing and the kissing." "Like what?" Frederic asks. I bite my lip. This is going to be worse than the frog-legs conversation. "Well, there's the one where the princess chops off the frog's head, and then he turns into a prince," I say all in a rush. Frederic's eyes almost pop out of his head. "I do not wish to try that one.

Excuse me," Sebastian told Tip. "Not only can I hear your whisper, but I can see the sound waves of your whisper. They're a very pale green color, like the pee of an extremely sick person.

one step. Creak. Two steps. Creak! Three. Creeeeeak! I stop on the very bottom stair and look across the basement at the huge and creepy mirror. It's still huge and creepy, but other than that, it looks perfectly fine. "There is not a single crack in the mirror," I say. "We're going back to bed. Now." "I never said it was cracked," Jonah says. "I said it was hissing." He approaches

Maybe in Smithville a room filled with books is called a media room, but it smells just like the library in my old, normal school. Musty. Dusty. Papery.

Mom will not be happy if we wake her up. (She already got annoyed at me once today when I told her she was six minutes and forty-five seconds late picking me up at school. I didn't mean to make her feel bad. But I have a supercool timer on my watch, and if I'm not going to use it to tell her how late she is, then what am I going to use it for?)

Should I pack a bathing suit?

covered in trees, and dazzling waterfalls spilling into blue lakes. There are also dirt roads zigzagging in and around. But the most amazing thing about the view is that there is a haze of multicolored sparkles hovering over the mountains.

Jonah's eyes widen. "Do you think she'd eat our lungs and livers, too?" Snow nods. "She might." "Do you think she'd use ketchup? I bet they'd be pretty gross without ketchup.

NO FLYING EXCEPT IN THE FLYERS' COURT OR THE YARD. NO ANIMAL FRIENDS IN SCHOOL WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION. NO FLUXING WITHOUT TEACHER SUPERVISION. Today, Nory noticed a sign she had never bothered to read before. It read: DO NOT RIDE ON YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS.

We found a puppy. In the … um … backyard. Yes! The backyard! And then we … went to see if any of our neighbors lost a puppy. That's why we didn't hear you calling earlier. We were outside.

ugly blue pants!