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1 " We shouldn't have to do it- set ourselves on fireto change the way things are.But I think maybeto be a girl in this worldsometimes you have to burn.Sometimes it's howwe light the way. "
― Kyrie McCauley , We Can Be Heroes
2 " Why kill yourself trying to meet everyone else's expectation of perfect? "
3 " If the hero dies, they callit a Greek tragedy,but when the heroine dies,it's a romance.Now I only want storieswhere girls are the heroes,and our fates are neither written in the stars nor heldin the palm of a man's hand,but are entirely our own. "
4 " SHERIFF THOMAS: You know what I mean, Ms. Logan. It did. What are we going to do, take everyone’s guns away just because one girl died? "
5 " If you don't knowBeck's humor, or Vivian's grace.Their riotous, righteous anger.That's what girlsare made of.I would know, because I've seen itand because, for a brief time, I was made of all those things, too.And I have also seenthe way they bent timeand space, like their griefheld a gravitythat could not be denied.And when it gave in,the strangest thing happened.It let me come back to them,for a time, perhaps justlong enoughto remind the worldwhat we girls are capable of.Like when Cassandrasaw the future,when Ariadneescaped the maze,when Circe cursed the men,and Helen started a war,when Medusa was hunted,and Andromeda was sacrificedfor her city.If you already knowthe truth about girls(if you've been lucky enoughto see it)then you already knowit is possible for three girlsto be at the center of the their own stories-to be at the centerof everything.You already know thatwe can be heroes. "
6 " The things that once meant everything to Vivian meant nothing now. "
7 " It wasn't fair that Cassie's name would forever be known for how she died. Instead of her laughter, her poetry, her voice. "