In Too Deep

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

Did you know Nellie could fly a plane?" Amy shook her head. "I guess it never came up." "Lots of things don't come up with Nellie. Until they do.

Okay,” Amy said, blowing out a breath. “Our grandmother Grace left a will that gave us a choice between a million dollars and a hunt to find thirty-nine clues, which, when we put them together, will make us the most powerful people in the world. So we chose the hunt. Along with various assorted horrible Cahill relatives, all of whom have tried to kill us at one time or another.” Shep sighed. “If you don’t want to tell me, I guess that’s up to you.

The sound of rushing water filled Amy Cahill’s ears. If she kept her eyes closed, she could imagine she was standing under a beautiful tropical waterfall. Unfortunately, she was hiding in an airport bathroom. Inside

laughing at her and getting smacked in the face with a wave. It was the most fun he’d had since he’d Fed-Exed his dead spider collection to his piano teacher.

They have to pay." "Revenge sounds so… Cahill," Amy said. "Not revenge," Dan said. "Justice.

I'm getting to the point where I'm never surprised when you pop up. - Alistair Oh

She opened her Dictionary of Australian Slang. "I'll just put on my sunnies," she said, slipping on sunglasses. "I'll spit the dummy if you ankle biters take too long, but if you don't, she'll be apples!" "Speak English, please," Dan said. "If you take too long, dude, you're toast." "Got it.

We push away the bad memories," Irina said. Bleak sadness deadened her voice. "We tell ourselves is better not to remember. It is not better. Better to remember everything, even pain.

Aren’t our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky?

Sure,” Dan said. “He was one smart dude. Get married or go lie on a beach. No contest. Even with the volcano, the dude was ahead.

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.