Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders.

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive,  knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

The closer he was the less confident I was.

For every hour spent on worrying, is sixty minutes that could have been spent on seeking for some solutions.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.