There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again. - Seanan McGuire

“My name is Lord of the Forest,” said the stag.
Regan nodded. Every stag she’d ever met had been named Lord of the Forest, even when there was another stag only a few feet away. Deer didn’t understand irony.

There would be time to grab something from the dining hall before she had to go to English class. The thought of having to analyze the poetry of Emily Dickinson without calories was enough to make her want to cry. Why adults constantly wanted to know what centuries-old poems meant was beyond her. Shouldn’t someone have found the right answer by now? Or at least an answer good enough to accept?

Back where I come from, mothers and fathers live together most of the time. Unless they're divorced."
"What's 'divorced' mean?"
"It means they were married and now they're not anymore, so their kids get double Christmas.