Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone 
A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement. 
Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness. 
I figured I'd duck out ... before Goody Osbourne took the stand. 
If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn't there a kind of terrible beauty in it? 
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. 
We're all wanting things we don't understand. things we can't even name. The yearning so deep, like pinions over our hearts. 
This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly. 
Like all that you are is the wanting, and the rest of you just burns away? 
You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it. 
There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing. - Sophocles, Electra 
Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to. 
Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder. The 
He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight. 
If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to feel that. 
Since then, he could only ever think about his sister, one wall away. And how he hoped Deenie never did things like this. With guys like him. 
I haven't had anything to drink in so long, I figured it'd be best to have something I'd probably never want two of. 
If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful. 
Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her. 
...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis. 
There wasn't much to know. Now there's less. 
Time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light. 
It was the best night ever.And they hadn't talked about any of it since.
You never think your life will be that big. Just 
Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that? 
I know what that's like," he says. "The way you can be saved without ever knowing you were in trouble. 
That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix. 
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13. 
It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour. 
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. 