• So I decided to make connections with the book I'm currently reading because this was one of my favorite things to do in English class was to go deeper than just reading the book. While reading this book, for some reason I couldn't stop coming across things that i could relate to.
• "What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones."

This is true because when people point out something about me, i start acting that way even when i don't really want to; and that also kind of proves my conformity theory. (or my habit of sitting in corners)

• "Most of the time, my mother seemed nothing like her parents at all, and it was hard for me to imagine that she had come from them. But occasionally, in small, unexpected moments, the corners of my mother's mouth would turn down and she'd say. 'Really? Is that so?' and sound exactly like a Pickford."

You grow up hating your parents then end up being just like them.

• "Phoebe had a way of sounding like a grown-up sometimes. When she said, 'That's what I'm telling you,' she sounded like a grown-up talking to a child."

Jensen has a way of doing that too.

• "He had difficulty saying lunatic. On the way to Phoebe's house Ben said some odd things. First, he said, 'Maybe you shouldn't call him a lunatic.'"

AH. FORESHADOWING. EITHER BEN HAS BEEN CALLED A LUNATIC BEFORE OR HE FEELS THAT HE IS OR HE'S THE ONE LEAVING THE ANONYMOUS NOTES ON PHOEBE'S DOORSTEP. (sorry if you plan on reading this)

• "It bothered me, what he had said. It occurred to me that my father didn't hug me as much anymore, and that maybe I was starting to flinch whenever anyone touched me."

I know i am really over thinking this sitting in the corner thing but this proves another possibility that maybe i'm not conforming to other people's observations but that i'm just noticing it. (Which proves Jensen's theory)

• "Everybody is just walking along concerned with his own problems, his own life, his own worries. And we're all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda. 'Look at my worry. Worry with me. Step into my life. Care about me.'"

This is so true it isn't even funny.

• Also if you ever do/have read this book, pay special attention to chapter 12 because it is way too cute. It's about Gram & Gramp's marriage bed. ^_^
• "Mr. Birkway was mighty strange. I didn't know what to make of him. I thought he might have a few squirrels in the attic of his brain. He was one of those energetic teachers who loved his subject half to death and leaped about the room dramatically... He said, 'Brilliant!' and 'Wonderful!' and 'Terrific!' He was tall and slim... eyes that sparkles all over the place, and when he turned these eyes on you, you felt as if his whole purpose in life was to stand there and listen to you, and you alone."

That is Mr. Warwick.