“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

“They stare at her, not seeing the woman she is or the girl she was none too long ago, but a mere puzzle. An intractable puzzle - bemusing and a little frustrating, but capable of being solved nonetheless.”

“The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.”

“What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death?”

“Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.”

“Being an adult, it seemed, was horrible. But being a child was awful too, and moving from one state to the other only meant you were moving closer to death, with so much and so little to talk about all at the same time, and how was that even possible?”