“It's the big kids who get everything! They push you out of line at the show... They grab all the cake and ice cream at parties...""I guess that's just the way life is...""In the animal kingdom, we call it, 'survival of the fattest'!”

“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.”

“We’ll all have an ice-cream cake to celebrate! Except for we don’t have a freezer!”

“The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance."I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening."Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed."Is that...is that blue birthday cake?"He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one.:Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a lot to talk about.”

“I like ice cream with my cake. But in moderation, and not like five gallons with a cupcake. For that much ice cream, I’d need at least two cupcakes.”

“I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.”