Cynthia Hand

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff.

Well he should get over himself. He tried to get me burned at the stake in Brit History yesterday. Here I am minding my own business like a good little girl, and out of the blue Tucker raises his hand and accuses me of being a witch" "sounds like something Tucker would do" admits wendy."Everybody had to vote on it. I barely escaped with my nuns life. Obviously I'll have to return the favour.

Hey, Carrots," he says.

Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away."Mrs. Avery: You sang to it?Tucker: Her singing is that bad.

She shrugs."Men""Men.""If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there?

Are you any good at it?""Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.

He wanted to tell her she'd have more room if she'd just get rid of her books, but he supposed that in her case, it would be like telling a mother she'd have more room if she threw out her children.

Bug spray._ Mosquitoes never bother me, but apparently they eat Tucker alive if he forgets bug spray. So I wear it for solidarity. __ll the kids wearit,_ I explain to Mom. __hey say the mosquito is the Wyoming state bird.

I think you must be some kind of a freak. Either that or you__e trying toconvert me to your secret horse religion.___arn, you got me,_ she says theatrically. __ou thwarted my evil plan.

As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways.""My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with.""It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it.""I'll learn to control my hair?

I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I don't know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way.

The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

It's been nice knowing you, Clara.'Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked.'Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin. Because I'm pretty sure my parents are going to kill me

Shawshank__ good,_ he says. __ut you can__ beat the way Woody Harrelson kills zombies. He takes such joy in it.___h-huh,_ I say, making a face. ____e always found zombies to be the least threatening of the scary monsters. I mean, come on. They__e slow. They__e brain-dead. They don__ plot evil or try to take over the world. They just__ I put my arms out in front of me and give him my best zombie groan. I shake my head. __o not scary.___ut they just. Keep. Coming,_ Christian says. __ou can run, you can kill them, but more of them always pop up, and they never stop._ He shudders. __nd they try to eat you, and if you get bitten, that__ it__ou__e infected. You__e doomed to become a zombie yourself. End of story.___kay,_ I concede, __hey__e kind of scary,_ and now I__ vaguely disappointed that we__e not here to watch a zombie movie.

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.

Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel,Where finally a horse could take a bride...

Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.