“Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?”

“And all the while Stephen started at me as if I were something magical. Not the ugly way other people sometimes stare at me, like he was meeting someone in a foreign country who spoke his language ...”

“Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world - a horrific, fantastic society in which people's faces contained only eyes, millions of healthy young adu...”

“We were all survivorsevery last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Deaths cold face.”

“Dont ever worry what the boys who dont appreciate originality think of you. Theyre fools.”

“We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Its bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys games and work and manners!”

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”