It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts. - Gabrielle Zevin

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn't turned out to be.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.