People who keep journals have life twice
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults
At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.