Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
E. LockhartSomeone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. LockhartI sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
E. LockhartWe shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
E. LockhartShe might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up.
E. Lockhart