One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults d...
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no ru...
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure o...
We would get high only for a higher purpose, Lacey had decreed.
They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.
The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.
But things don't just fall apart. People break them.
Loretta didn’t have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn’t notice. Poor
I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.
Pregnant. dead. Jewish. These are impossibles.
My secret self, the scarecrow-Lacey built of twigs and mud and bark, the Lacey who was made of forest and would someday be summoned home.
If you can't remember something, did it really happen?
I knew we were better together than we were alone, and better still than everyone else, and that was enough.
You could love something and still understand it had ruined your life.
It was only ours the way everything was ours: because the world we created between the two of us was secret and wholly owned.
I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trust...
The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough.
A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe, Max said. And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.