I was excited to be moving, and I would be starting in an extra-good school, but what about my friends? What about Susie Q and The Raven? We'd been together since first grade. It was promised that they would all come out on my birthday, and here I was seeing them only a couple of weeks since moving, but there was already something different. The everyday stuff was gone. If I had asked them what happened yesterday, or the past week, they would have said nothing, nothing special, but they had all been part of that nothing, they knew exactly what kind of nothing it had been, and I hadn't, and I didn't. All at once I understood that the nothing was going to pile up, and while we would still like each other, we wouldn't know each other the same way.
- Daniel Pinkwater, Jules, Penny & the Rooster, p.16
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