Curly paper edges crammed with handwritten solutions to the Great Unknown X. Red check after red check. No blood, no error, only certainty. Itâs algebra, sweet algebra, oh hated friend and foe. I want to pass you, aceyou, beat you, swallow you whole, so that even Mr. Eldridge, with his great unclean mustache, shall smile his smile upon me, and the sun will shine and I will get the scholarship that will enable me to go to Hampshire Arts College. Absolutely totally. âErica
⢠OMG! Iâm so thrilled we finally have a place to talk about this amazing book and its ideas! Thank you, Ethan! Iâve been a fan ever since its first edition and I canât wait to see the results I know weâll get. Do you guys know that Jasper Trelawney didnât exactly write the book himself? Heâd self-published another book,
Sitting on the Secret Self
, that only sold, like, a hundred copies. I mean, the guy was in his thirties and living in his motherâs garage. One day he got a copy of it back in the mail. He figured it was someone asking for a refund, but then he noticed all these notes written in the margins,
correcting
his ideas. It was from those notes that he wrote
The Rule of Won
, which has sold tens of millions of copies and changed millions of lives! So I guess what Iâd like for myself most of all is to meet the person who
really
wrote
The Rule of Won.
They must be totally amazing, right? âGrace
⢠If weâre all going to be working on this together, why not do something that helps all of us? The school budget was cut by, like, half a million dollars last year; the arts program is practically gone; and aside from the fact that we donât have a gym, thereâs no cash for new equipment for the sports teams. How about we all wish for money for the school? âDana
⢠Iâm not sure my religion allows me to believe in the fulfillment of all my desires until
after
Iâm dead, so I think I have to quit your club. Sorry. âLuke
⢠I would like the greatest gaming system in the world, the Xbox. A 733 MHz Intel main processor and 233 MHz graphics processor from nVidia create photorealistic graphics in real time. A huge hard drive stores saved games and characters, and a built-in Ethernet port enables super-fast multi-player online gaming over a broadband Internet connection. âLandon
⢠My parents are going away next weekend and I would absolutely love it if they decided to let me stay home alone, despite the ugly incident last time involving sixteen kids, some of whom I didnât even really know, and Momâs collection of porcelain figurines, which really wasnât my fault. âJane
⢠A new iPod. I lost my old one, right out of my locker. I think someone knows the combination. âSally
⢠Thereâs someone I really care about who doesnât know I care about him, and Iâd like him to know how I feel without having to tell him. Weâre sort of in different cliques, though. Do I have to mention a name? âKathleen
⢠Sorry, my dog ate my craving. âMike
⢠Okay, Iâm taking this seriously. I want people to stop staring at me like they want to kill me. I want them to believe me when I say I had nothing to do with the gym collapsing. All this glaring makes me want to scream and make a scene, and if I do, Iâll get expelled. So, a little help here? âCaleb
⢠Iâve always wanted exactly what I want whenever I want it, so this club seems great for me! Thereâs this terrific tank top that would look killer on me if only it came in slate gray to match the highlights on my jeans. They have every color, pastels to neon, except a nice slate gray. I would love it if one of those showed up. âBeth
⢠I want to be able to do an ollie, like my brother, but I keep landing on my ass. Youâve got to roll forward and pop down hard on the tail with your back foot. When the nose starts