“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”
“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”
“In the spring of fifth grade, the boob fairy arrived with her wand and smacked Cassie wicked hard.”
“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”
“Pam described herself as the person in fifth grade who got left behind when her friends got popular. ”
“Remind me again why I put up with you?" ''Cause you sold me your soul for five bucks, and now you must submit to my will?' I still had the sheet of paper, written in his untidy fifth-grade scrawl. Gideon David Belmonte. One soul.”