There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive. - Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?
"Sammy!"
"Why else would you catapult me through the air and feed me to a man-eating cot?"

What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet—only science would put them on the same tree.