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21 " When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice? "
― Ellen Hopkins , Tricks (Tricks, #1)
22 " Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out. "
23 " I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before? "
24 " Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains. "
25 " The best thing about my mom being sucha bitch is not worryingabout trying to make herproud of me. "
26 " Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets. "
27 " Holy effing moly. "
28 " Fearis a better friend than you, who feel nothing,beneath the weight ofmy pain. "
29 " hindsightis gainedthroughexperience "
30 " Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God. "
31 " Not sure if there is a God or why some all-powerful being would give half a damn about the likes of me. "
32 " never believed in demons or monsters lurking under my bed. But lately I’ve started to wonder if evil hasn’t in fact infiltrated this world, slithering streets and sidewalks, wearing what- ever disguise suits its immediate purpose. When a choirboy is molested, is it by the devil in a priest costume? Or does Satan play a more clever game to get what he wants? To win the contest, accomplish his goals, might the prince of hatred mask himself as love? "
33 " Another day, a different hour, take a left and not a right, you'd wind up a whole different being. Knowing if that would be better requires a realm of experience only decades can build. "
34 " Flying Is that what it’s like when you die? Do you slip out of your skin, go soaring up into a butterscotch sky? Do you surf waves of light? How far? How high? I hope that’s what it’s like, but I’m afraid it’s a lot more like falling with no net to catch you, and no way of knowing how hard you will hit or where you’ll stop. Will you touch down back on Earth, or will you land in the nightmare you always feared you’d never wake up from? "
35 " How many kinds of weirdos are there?” She doesn’t laugh. Lots. And the worst are the ones you don’t suspect. They’re the ones you invite inside your front door. "
36 " Eyes closed, we can/be anywhere. Italy. France. Australia./Jupiter. Hell. Doesn't matter, as long/as we're not here. As long as we can pretend we're still pretty. "
37 " If god were inclinedto punish someonejust for being the wayhe created them, it wouldbe punishment enoughto insert that innocentsoul inside the wombof a native Indianan. "
38 " Why look for a princewhen frogs are much more common? "
39 " Why scramble to disguise what your personal truth is when reality not only hurts less in the long run, but is most often the easier path? "
40 " I've decided ifbeing a real man meanssmashing someonein the face or turningyour back on a personbecause of their sexuality, I'll just stay a girl. "