'"Hey,' she said as she hung the dress on the rod in front of me, 'your last name is Favorite. That's kinda cool.'" Chapter 1, p. 2

"On my eleventh birthday, my mother disappeared." Chapter 3, p.12

'"A person doesn't go through what Angie did and just go on with their life. There's usually some sort of aftermath. The nurses have been watching for it." Chapter 4, p.29

"For the rest of my life people would think of me as the girl who got attacked and nearly killed the summer before junior year. Life would never be the same again." Chapter 5, p. 35

"I wasn't sorry he was dead. The only regret I had about his death was the timing. If it had happened a month earlier, I'd still be a whole person living my old life." Chapter 6, p. 38

"I liked reading about anyone who had an interesting life...