- Principal Willis Dewitt: [Mr Dewitt is distributing the History test papers] All right, people. I trust you're all sufficiently frightened. If not, you should be. 'Cause this test will count for a quarter of your total grade.
- Richard 'Boner' Stabone: [terrified] A quarter? Only yesterday he said twenty-five percent!
- Richard 'Boner' Stabone: [Boner and Eddie come in after Mike's meeting with his teacher, and find Mike on the floor] He beat you!
- Mike Seaver: No, he just took my shoes.
- [Mike had the test answers written on the soles]
- Eddie: Oh, that stinks, Mike.
- Richard 'Boner' Stabone: [waving his hand under his nose, mocking] Yeah, real bad, too!
- Mike Seaver: I'll tell you something weird. That moment when Mom and Dad believed me, everything was OK.
- Mike Seaver: [something new dawns on him] My God, I actually care what they think about me.
- Ben Seaver: I care what they think about me.
- Mike Seaver: Well, you're nine. That's OK to feel that way at nine. But I'm fifteen. I'm s'posed to think my parents are scum.
- Ben Seaver: Are you sure?
- Mike Seaver: Yeah, everybody knows that. It's on TV all the time.