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1 " If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off,swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't "
― Caroline B. Cooney , Losing Christina Collection (Losing Christina, #1-3)
2 " Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds. "
3 " Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass. "
4 " The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'. "
5 " How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard. "
6 " It wasn't that she stopped being nice; she stopped being anything "
7 " I'm interesting, she thought. I'm unusual. But I'm not beautiful.... "
8 " You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage. "
9 " I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me. "
10 " Perhaps nobody knows anybody. "
11 " Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like "the alone". That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers forever. "
12 " People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere. "