Out of Context Babysitters Club

“you’ve got sheep barrettes in your hair,” I yelled. “You think they’re adult?” “Sheep,” Claudia informed me witheringly, “are in.”

Dear Chris, I’d love to see you tonight, but the timing just isn’t right. We’re leaving Sea City today, and going far away. I’ll always remember your smile, please think of me once in a while. I <3 you forever, your secret admirer.

Does the ghost of Elvis haunt the Hard Rock Cafe?

Stacey and I have not been getting along very well. It’s all because Toby DUMPED her on Thursday night.

Claudia, by the way, is definitely the most dramatic-looking person in the club.

There’s no place like New York for great clothes. I still shop there, which means I look pretty sophisticated in Stoneybrook.

“You’re always organized,” she said coolly. “I would find it VERY boring to live that way.”

he would never rest until he found a mortal woman who would love him despite his disfigurement.

Dawn is a true health-food fanatic. So how do you think she felt when Byron pulled out the bologna and a jar of grape jelly and began to make a sandwich?

She had actually bought Scott a ten-dollar box of candy as a going-away present, right before we saw him kissing his girlfriend. Talk about bad timing!

Do you know exactly how many words rhyme with cat? I do. Vanessa used every single one of them during our trip to the beach.

you said you would always be true to Logan, a little voice nagged me

Why couldn’t I think of anything interesting to talk about like other girls could? I made a mental note to ask Stacey what SHE talked about on dates

the house has — or the spirits of the people buried beneath it have — some kind of power.

You can’t be in love with two boys at once, can you? I just didn’t know.

To tell you the truth, it scares me a little when they make a federal case out of my diabetes.

Stacey seemed thrilled to see Toby again, but I reminded myself that she had acted exactly the same way around Pierre

“Ahem,” said Kristy. “Are we all settled? May we proceed with the business at hand?” Where’d she learn to talk like THAT?

they wanted to steal your Ding Dongs... Even spirits like junk food

In Math, while I was supposed to be figuring out what “X” equaled, I was really thinking about flames and bony hands and swarms of flies.