suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
A nut is someone whose noose broke.
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.
"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!
all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.