“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone”

“She preferred to get high on life.”

“God, that’s always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.”

“Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.”

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

“It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and...and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability.”

“He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.”