“Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.”

“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”

“If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.”

“It had been a false spring, a lie like all the other lies, and I found myself wondering it it would ever really come.”

“I think that's why they have so many religious freaks in the airports...they even keep the flowers behind the counter. 'Go, go my children...be fruitful and annoy.”

“I stared in disbelief at the letter gracing the front page. C+? C+? Didn't he know how much time I spent studying for this stupid,pointless test? Didn't he know I'd spent half the night before taking it battling the forces of evil? Didn't he know I needed to get into Georgefreakingtown?The C+ sat there,mocking me.It was probably a good thing I didn't have Tasey in my bag, or I would have burned that heinous letter right off the page.”

“I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.”