“Look, people, Im announcing a new rule. Its going to seem harsh. But its necessary.The word harsh got almost everyones attention.We cant have people sitting around all day playing Wii and watching ...”

“Im trying to help, Albert said.By paying him with beer?I paid him what he wanted, and Sam was okay with it. You were at the meeting, Albert said. Look, how else do you think you get someone like Or...”

“Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off.”

“She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood ba...”

“Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.She felt no pain.She saw no light.She heard, but barely.Her heart was still and silent.Yet she di...”

“Heres the thing, people: We have some serious problems. The lights are off. And it seems like thats affecting the water flow in part of town. So, no baths or showers, okay? But the situation is tha...”

“Caines a guy who needs to win. He needs to win before he poofs. Or he needs to win before I poof. The point is, hes not going to just accept us freeing all these kids from Coates and taking over Pe...”

“This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.”

“They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.”

“As you turn into a daddy, soon now, youll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.”

“She was going to go to her room,munch on chocolate,then collapse into bed.And if her upstairs neighbors decided to talk about who the daddy was or cry again about how much David was loved,she'd go ...”

“Southern DADDYDandy At Doin Diapers Yall!”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”