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1 " When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops. "
― , Love You Like Suicide
2 " I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant. "
3 " There aren't many white people around here, just us kids. Seventeen, eighteen years old and flushed with freedom, we don't care about fitting or blending in. We all speak loudly without saying a word. we are a tribe with our dyed hair and rags and big boots and we believe ourselves impervious to everything. The local folks must think we're crazy or lazy or both. "
4 " I struggle with wanting to observe from a distance and get in people's faces. It's an uneasy contradiction. "
5 " How should I write this? In third person so it becomes just a story? In second so that you can pretend you were there too? In first, so that I can drown in a tidal wave of sorrow, sink under the weight of it, remember what it feels like to be utterly lost? First person it is. "
