My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure," she said, "I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon