It was slow motion. I just saw her going down and there was nothing I could do about it because there was someone else on top of me.

It gives you a sense of school pride. This girl falls off a pyramid and she's doing the motions to the fight song. It made me proud to be her teammate.

She should have known from that moment; nothing could hurt them. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse might have rode into town. Gilly and Sam would have knocked Death off his pale steed and swiped War's sword for a souvenir.

If you dont take care of things in life people will take care of things for you. But probably not in the way that you wanted. The young will be taken care of by the old the best way they see fit. later in life the old will be taken care of by young the best way they see fit. Bottom line, if you can't wipe your own ass somebody will do it for you. just don't complain about the way they do it.

Gilly had decided that this was a dream. The Witches' Carnival didn't exist in the real world. And the Gilly who existed in the real world was not brave or cunning enough to have done everything that she'd done in the past day. The real Gilly was not beautiful enough to be lying in bed beside a woman like Maggie. Gilly had decided this was a dream, and also that she'd let that real Gilly, deep asleep somewhere in the outskirts of Birmingham, wither away and never wake up.

Already, Gilly could see herself arcing across the earth bright as a comet, moving too fast for the Ashleys and Tracyes, the thousand tiny insults and humiliations of the waking world, to ever catch.

One day you will walk out the door and meet the person that you will share the rest of your life with...make sure that you are ready