“So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.”

“I'd always avoided wearing white...my least favorite absence of color.”

“ All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for him was like a thing separate from me, a wild animal with a mind of its own, attacking the bars of the cage I kept it in, looking for a weak spot." from Struck”

“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”

“-I thought you were dead.-I was, a bit.”

“As his older sister, it was my job to lie to him in the name of easing his troubled mind.”

“-Who's that guy?-What guy?-The one I saw go up the stairs to your room with you.-Oh, that guy.”