Audrey Wait

by Robin Benway

I loved this book! Audrey breaks up with her boyfriend the day he is about to play in a club. He ends up writing a song about her before he goes. Talent Scouts at the club take the band and the song and make it big! Audrey's normal life is over!

Quotes I liked:

"They're stylin'."
"Dad, if you never say 'stylin" again, it'll be too soon."
"Can I still say things are cool?"
"Not around me please."
"That's cool."
I sighed.

(sounds so much like my kids!)

"It never fails that people will walk in at the last possible moment. I suspect it's a major conspiracy to annoy me."

A group of kids wearing bright blue t-shirts that said "Youth Choir Glee-a-Thon! on the front, which just goes to show how little parents love their kids, if they're willing to let them wear a shirt like that in public!"

"Cool sells better than brains." Jonah laughed and nodded. She's right. How many songs are written about brains?"

"I went to a concert on Friday night and made out with the lead singer from the Lolitas and their tour manager hid in the bushes and made a video of us and then sold it to the tabloids and now the principal wants to meet with me in his office," I told him since like, he wasn't going to fidn out in about three minutes anyways." "The Lolitas are way overated" he finally said. "They just don't know it yet."

"We would've kept smiling at each other like two hopeless dopes if I hadn't realized the time. Oh, half an hour in, I siad. Gotta report back to the generals. "
"Yeah, you do that, I don't want your dad to come after us."
I waved the thought away as I called home. "If anything, he'll just fuck with your head."
How reassuring. Thank you Audrey.
Anytime."

It's important to always have your enemy in your sight. Who knows what could be going on behind your back?

After sitting in the office all the time, my grades had all gone up. " My parents were absolutely gleeful. "Your social alienation is the best thing that's ever happened to you!" my mom crowed! It's nice to know whose side they're on.

I sighed, "How come when you want your parents to tell you what to do, they don't, and when you don't want them to tell you what to do they do?" "Secret parenting classes," Dad said.

"Sometimes you're gonna have to make decisions that not everyone is going to like. IF you think it's the right thing to do, you have to do it. Even if your friends and boyfriend don't like it. Heck, even if your parents don't. You have to start trusting yourself."