“THUMB, I HOPE I WILL NOT BORE YOU WITH HOW TOTALLY, TOTALLY I ADORE YOU. THE FUNNY WAY YOU HAVE OF TALKING, THE CUTE WAY YOU HAVE OF WALKING. PLEASE DO NOT FEEL THAT I AM STALKING YOU. LOVE, HENDERSON”

“HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS AND VOLCANOES.”

“I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.”

“Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.”

“In his heart he knows first isn’t touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you”

“Rowan knew it was now possible to look directly at Zandra, Zandra the Princess of Jupiter, the one he had loved all his life. He reached out to take her hand. True, he was covered all over with scars and scratches and stitches, but then, in a way, so was she. The end.”

“Dicen que el verdadero amor siempre trae consigo grandes y generosos actos. A veces, cosas maravillosas le suceden a la gente y nadie lo sabe. Nadie sabe o le importa. Algún día dentro de muchos años en un futuro lejano, miraré hacia atrás y diré, —Ese año cuando estaba en séptimo grado, conocí a un chico llamado Henderson Elliot, y lo que hiso por mí fue extraordinario y quién era y cómo él se ganó mi corazón fue nada menos que increíble.”