“Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.”

Libba Bray

Libba Bray - “Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded...” 1

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