“Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn’t be about the either/or. We’re capable of more than that, you know?”

“Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“Shouldn’t you be putting on makeup and curling you hair, doing girly stuff?”“I consider doing you girly stuff.”

“I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.”

“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”