“I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.”
“How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.”
“rain is acid...sex is death....”
“There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.”
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.”
“My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks.”