"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
"She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion."
"She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines."
"She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare."
"I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire."Go away!" screamed Devnee.He did not answer."I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me."He laughed."No one can be k..."
"But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways."
"They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the g..."
"It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions.The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted..."
"Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds."
"Listen to the sea...it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass."