Please Ignore Vera Dietz Quotes

I haven't been Charlie's best friend since April, when he totally screwed me over and started hanging out full-time with Jenny Flick and the Detentionhead losers. Let me tell you—if you think you...

Is it okay to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead? (1.1.3)

For a while, they were blocking the door, until the banquet manager asked them to move. So they did, and now they're circled around Jenny Flick as if she's Charlie's hopeless widow rather than the...

I regret everything that happened with Vera. Even back in grade school when I cut up the leprechaun picture. It's hard to explain. As far as I was concerned, I didn't have a choice. I was born to a...

Dad still hits an AA meeting when he needs to. He says it's a curse—alcoholism. Says I should never even try the stuff because the curse runs in our family. "My father was a drunk, and so was his...

That's why I'm telling Vera everything about me and Sindy now. I'm giving her a chance to evade her destiny. The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering...

The summer after my mother ran off with the bald podiatrist in the convertible, Charlie Kahn's dad let him build a tree house. (1.17.1)

They are trying to get me to come to terms with what happened there. They are trying to get me to clear Charlie's name, but I'm just not ready to do that yet. (1.9.4)

Things changed when I was thirteen. That year, Sherry Heller invited Charlie and me to her basement New Year's Eve party so we could all watch her make out with her big-nosed boyfriend from Midland...

Dad doesn't want me to see the burying part, but I make him walk to the cemetery with me, and he holds my hand for the first time since I was twelve. (1.1.4)