I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.