“Are you going to tell me what that was about? Adam asked as we went back upstairs.Sometime, I told him. When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.”

“All right," Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,"Now I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-""Neither do we," I mutteredSamuel grinned "We have it pretty well...”

“I dont know who you think you are my mothers voice was low and dangerous but if you dont get out of my way right this instant, it wont matter.Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pa...”

“My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, And to think I was always worried that you didnt have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.”

“Yes, I told him. I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.He stopped where he was.What? I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face.I didnt say I liked the Pirate King, he told me.Oh....”

“Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”