“That wallpaper. touching it like that, was one of my protection tricks”

“I stared so long that I got to seeing them as being dark, ugly sins in my body, smelling and dirty, but my touch face showed that I didn't give a damn. I was the toughest person in the whole world. And then inside the outline of my body a devil's face slowly took shape. It came to my chest, a dark, ugly thing with big lips that looked hot around yellow pointed teeth, eyeing me in a friednly way, as though it had been feeding on what was inside me and was trying to show how pleased it was.”

“I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.”

“Somehow this is what I wanted to happen. I was holding my ground under attack from my enemies, lashing out at them until they killed me, not giving a damn.”

“One of the reasons dad was so pleased was because it did something to her.”

“It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?”

“ I never could talk to my sister Molly, because she was loopy”