“You need air. You need food. You don't need some beastly boy.”

“Trust. Affection. Respect." I shoved her tainted after-school snack across the table. "It must be hard to think of qualities you don't possess.”

“You ain't scared I'll kill you?You already did. At the dark park. The suspense is gone.”

“I do know you, Fancy. All about you. The problem is, you don’t know about me.”

“Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he plucked the charcoal from her hand and wrote beneath her words, you have me.”

“Wanting to connect doesn't make you needy--it makes you human.”

“It's easier to be careful in dresses. You have to be or you end up flashing your underclothes or destroying beautiful fabric. Dresses force you to be on guard.”