“I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffleball bat.”
“A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?”
“I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board”
“And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did. I think she did. Etc.”
“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”
“Today I feel like I did tomorrow.”