My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

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.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.