It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real. - Gabrielle Zevin

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

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