"Uncle Clive sent me a gift card!  He says to buy something I don't already have..."

                  "It would be easier just to buy something I do already have."

                "ME?  Paint on the walls???  I'd never do a thing like that!"

                                         "Not inside the house, anyway..."

                                "Mother doesn't like to come into my room..."

"She says she's always afraid she'll find something icky and scary hiding under all my toys."

"For my English homework, my teacher wants an example of a sentence fragment."

                            "Great!  I wonder which fragment she'd like!"

"I'm too young to shave but I figure I should start practicing my technique anyway.  And besides--"

           "--my shaving cream tastes a whole lot better than Father's!"

"Today's math assignment: A waste-processing plant handles five thousand cubic feet of garbage per day. Multiply this by the square root of the plant's total holding capacity less the total number of pages in their environmental policy documents to find out how many employees receive a three percent salary raise next year."

 "Mother, would you rather finish the ironing or help me with my math problems?"

                                         "Ask a stupid question..."

                       "The cute little girl from next door said she'd call me."

"I feel like I've been waiting for hours...  But I don't mind because, well--  It's her.  She's the most special person in the whole world!  And now she's going to talk to me!  At last!!!"

                                 "Hey--  Is that the ice cream truck?"

                                              "She can leave a message."