“Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things—don’t leave your socks lying around—but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.”
“Life is just about living some things or leaving some things. So just live it or leave it.”
“I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don’t want to know.”
“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”
“There are some things she doesn't like to think about because thinking about them takes up every part of her mind and body.”
“She realized that was one of the things she liked about Green Oaks – nobody knew her. She wasn’t the quiet girl from class. She wasn’t the girl with no mom or dad.”