3 Willows (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

by Ann Brashares

“So you get a grade from this and it goes on your transcript?” Ama persisted. “If you are getting credit, yes.” “Can you take the course for credit but not get a grade, you know, just get a pass, like you get in gym?” “No, Ama, you can’t. You get a grade.” “And you have to throw yourself off a mountain to get a good one?” “We call it rappelling,” Maureen said patiently.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of yourself you wanted to lose.

“Courage is the conquest of fear, right? He had no fear. You have a lot.”