"I had always hated the Crutchfields. I was born to hate the Crutchfields" (Chapter 1, p. 1).

"I am seventeen years old...I still want to laugh, dream, hope... love. The blackness that hugs my soul retreats" (Chapter 3, p. 20).

"I had to lie, I told myself. I didn't know him well enough yet to know how he would react" (Chapter 7, p. 46).

"I was Kait Hampton. I felt like I could be Kait Hampton forever" (Chapter 10, p. 69).

"Perhaps someday my weakness will be forgiven. But my child will not suffer because of my folly" (Chapter 14, p. 95).

"The Crutchfields and the Malones had become like pedigreed dogs, raised and bred over the generations for a certain characteristic" (Chapter 17, p. 112).

"We were sisters. We had always fought, but we had never said we hated each other" (Chapter 19, p. 126).

"My guilt surged. Because of my deception, I was learning things I had no right...