“Just so you know, Ive trusted you since camp.”

“Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.”

“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach”

“Now youre going to get it, I said, guessing Al was coming when the ones in the back scattered. You should have been nice.With a weird cry, the closest surface demon fell back, but it was too late. ...”

“Thats my girl, she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. Shed pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the bla...”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”