“I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.”

“I guess I'll see you third period, Mr. Cooper," she says as she exits the room.The way she refers to me as "Mr. Cooper" makes me scowl. I hate the fact that I'm her teacher. I'd so much rather be her Will.”

“Aren't you in my Science class?" Shayna/Shayla asks."English," I correct her.She shoots me a condescending look. "I did speak English," she says defensively. "I said, 'aren't you in my Science class?'"Oh, holy hell. Maybe I don't want to be that blonde. "No," I say. "I meant English as in 'I'm not in your Science class, I'm in your English class'.”

“Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?”

“You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.”

“I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.”

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”