“Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.”
“Kaylee do you know why you are here?"
"Yeah. Because the doors are locked.”
“She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.”
“I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.”
“Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.”
“They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.”
“shuffled their way through the cattle shoots in front of each restaurant’s counter.”
“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.
"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”
“I could not get my fill of looking.
There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.”
“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”
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