“It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of theirs!”
“She lived, we'll say,A harmless life, she called a virtuous life,A quiet life, which was not life at all(But that she had not lived enough to know)”
“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
“[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.”
“At then end of this experiment we call Alice's childhood, I imagine if she's as eager to move ahead with her passions as the graduates I'd just met, and as fond of her family as these kids seemed to be of theirs, I'll have my answer.”
“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”