Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.