“I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.”

“We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.”

“Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.”

“These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.”

“Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.”

“Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.”