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She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.

After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz.

He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.

Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.

Nobody knows what to do when there's a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.

He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.

Sometimes she thought she was mostly a collection of minor talents.

He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.