Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond.”

“But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with…”

“there she is, and I am watching her through Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo…”

“The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she…”