“Senior year is supposed to be a blast-easy and fun. So far it's been anything but.”

“But blasting the drummer into the river, though it would have been easy at this range, was not a good way to be inconspicuous.”

“I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I haven't pushed you, taken you out of yourself, looked for that place inside where you give yourself to your top. Sometimes pleasure can take a bottom there, but more often it's pain that does.”

“It wasn't like I was expecting Senior year to be some amazing experience. If anything, I was prepared for it to be pretty much a letdown. Everyone would be looking ahead to college and getting sick of seeing the same faces we've been looking at for the last three years.”

“Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous.”

“Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.”