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It was delicious, his horror. She wanted to see it up close. She wanted to eat it.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.

Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter.
"No," she said. "I am Polish.

And when your brother cries for her, I will feed on his tears.

Everyone loves a villain. Or maybe not a villain, exactly, but someone you can point out and say, I might be weird, but I'm not weird like her.

People look, they don't see.

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. "

"How would you know?

We can all look up and say,. okay, there's the South Star,. there's the Big Dogpile, there's the Little Dipshit. Twinkle, twinkle.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.

Scarecrows weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn

Love the people who love you back.

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?

Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

You are spiky spring
Humming Summer, wings that
beat
Back ghosts of winter.

It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.

Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.

All five of them were short and bowlegged, making them look like a chorus line of wishbones.

I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.

What have you got against people?"
Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.

She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.

THE SUN TOUCHED HER FACE LIKE THE SOFTEST CARESS.

The way you learn to ride is by riding.

I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.

Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.

He grew out his hair," June says. "He looks amazing."

"He looks like a giant caramel with some carpet lint stuck to the top of it.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. - ANONYMOUS

I'd be okay with that kind of trouble, Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.

She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.
-Seven Chillman, classmate

Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.' A lot of times nice is boring. But that's not what I mean. Roza was nice and not boring at all.

I like to rub Twinkies under my arms.

Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.

You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.

In the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful,

I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.

Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.

I didn't care if it was magic. I just cared that I was riding with you.

It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

Is your work finished or is it just due?

You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.

The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.

You use what moves you.

There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you -Babcia

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

Do you have a girl? Where's your girl? Where's your girl?" "She's her own girl,