The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice and the rules are simple:

• Grab a book, any book (I, personally, prefer to use my current read.)
• Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
• Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
• Post it

Seventeen Against the Dealer by Cynthia Voigt
(The Tillerman Cycle, book 7)

“I wonder if all this school isn’t a way of running away. You know? A Failure to choose, and get down to the business of life. I don’t think so, but I have the suspicion that a really free woman wouldn’t ever wonder.”