“A girl in a yellow dress on a sunny day with nothing inside her but darkness”
“The dress means no harm, after all. And it is new. It carries nothing inside it but the possible beginnings of her downfall.”
“Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school on a sunny day in May.”
“. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.”
“Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...”
“Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love.Sunshine on ice.She warms his frost. He cools her fever.”