"Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?" "Sammy!" "Why else would you…"

"My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the …"

"What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The s…"

"I asked you to conquer your fear, but all you did was give in to it. If you were in love with her, that would be one …"

"“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find …"

"...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift …"

"I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—t…"

"“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”"

"I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. “It's that way with people, too,” he said, “only with…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"