"I wasn't used to seeing her this way. Scarlett had always been the stronger, the livelier, the braver. The girl who punched out Missy Lassiter, the meanest, most fiendish of the pink-bike girls that first summer she moved in, on a day when they surrounded us and tried to make us cry. The girl who kept a house, and her mother, up and running since she was five, now playing mother to a thirty-five-year-old child. The girl who had kept the world from swallowing me whole, or so I'd always believed." Chapter 1, p. 20
"Because life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend." Chapter 2, p. 23
"When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were.....
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