“i want to go to the gymand pretend the weight machines are drumsand play the longest drum solo on them”
“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”
“Dad laughs. “You want to take a break? Go play with them?”The problem is I’m sixteen, almost seventeen, and I don’t want to play with them as much as I want to want to play with them. Maybe this feeling is what Noah’s been running from.”
“They pay me to play my drums and I love it!”
“The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.”
“I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future.”