Quotes from Gennifer Choldenko

Reports for the bureau always got to have all the i 's dotted and the t 's crossed.

But trust them? Not on your life.

She ignores me. Clearly there's no stopping her until she's read every last word.

What is this guy . . . nuts?

My dad told me all about it. Wildness comes over teenagers like a disease and they go around kissing all over the place.

Finding a note in the pocket of my shirt was bad enough. Messing with my pillow . . . that's something else again. A guy's pillow is personal, you know?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Yours truly, pack animal.

What else can she do?" she asks. "She's not a trick monkey." "She'd never make it as a trick monkey. She only has one trick," Piper says. "487 times 6,421 is 3,127,027," Nat says.

When's your birthday, Piper?" I ask. "November sixteenth." "1922?" "Yep." "Natalie, what day of the week was Piper born?" "Thursday," Nat says without looking up. "That right?" I ask Piper. Piper doesn't answer, but her eyes open wider.

Not many kids can say that when their toilet is stopped up, they get Seven Fingers, the ax murderer, to help them out, either.