“I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.”

“A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”

“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”

“It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.”

“It was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with”

“In the dark, I get a glimpse of myself from way above, like in a movie. I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill a Mockingbird”

“Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.”