Some Lines

A few of the lines I liked were

(chapter 6, pg. 53) "'You always do everything backasswards.' He looked at me. 'No wonder you're flunking the hell out of here,' he said. 'You don't do one damn thing the way you're supposed to. I mean it. Not one damn thing.'"

(chapter 5, pg.47) "I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands. The snow was very good for packing. I didn't throw it at anything, though."

(chapter 7, pg.62) "I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead."

(chapter 7, 67) "I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions––and here I was getting the ax again. It made me feel pretty sad. She bought me the wrong kind of skates––I wanted racing skates and she bought hockey––but it made me sad anyway. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."

I also really like the section on Allie because he is a character that has always really interested me.