lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.