“A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.”

“I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.”

“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

“Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels.But.Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.”

“someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”