“Homeschool doesn’t give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It justgives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone’s lame Facebook joke.”
“This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.”
“How do you expect to do that?",I asked,"Do you have some sort of get-out-of-Hades-free card?”
“Write more thank-you cards, but draw fewer swastikas on them.”
“Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that’s especially true for players capable of becoming “legends,” the ones in such demand on the free agent market.”
“You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex.”