“I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.”

“The family she knew -- the life she knew -- officially was no more." Summer Girls, Page 192 by”

“You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.”

“Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.”

“How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.”

“Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.”

“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”